Bolivian congress brawls over China, Russia lithium deals

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The Bolivian government has asserted that the contracts the country sought to process this Friday began in 2021 and are not recent agreements, as the opposition and Evo supporters maintain. This follows a contentious session in Congress that had to be suspended following clashes between several deputies during the debate seeking approval of several of these contracts.

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Faced with the government’s attempts to force the approval of contracts for the exploitation of lithium, the mayor of Cochabamba, Manfred Reyes Villa, pointed out that this resource is strategic for the country and its future cannot be decided between difficulties of the divided legislators. “Lithium is strategic and its future cannot be decided between difficulties, cries or political pressures. This type of contracts must be evaluated by the n…

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La Paz, Jul 04, 2025 (ATB Digital).- The Minister of Hydrocarbons, Alejandro Gallardo, warned that the delay in the approval of lithium contracts represents a serious obstacle to the advancement of the industrialization of this strategic resource. He pointed out that the project takes four years of technical work and planning, and that a possible refusal in the Assembly would directly harm the country, beyond any implication for the current gove…