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Latin American Prospects for BRICS

... revenues, mainly generated from the exploitation of the nation’s natural resources. Bolivia is rich in hydrocarbons, primarily natural gas, and holds the world’s largest lithium deposits, estimated at over 21 million tonnes. While the export of Bolivian hydrocarbons (mainly to neighboring Brazil and Argentina) remains a traditional revenue stream, the lithium industry is a relatively recent addition to the country’s foreign economic priorities. Lithium nationalization in 2008 gave a start to the development of Bolivia’s deposits, but ...

06.12.2024

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Electoral Circle 2014 in Latin America: Winds of Change?

... Given the mass support that the opposition enjoys, the new government has limited room for maneuver, and as a result, Salvador Sanchez has already moderated his election campaign rhetoric. At the left and center-left wing, the incumbent presidents in Bolivia and Brazil are well set to win the election in October 2014. Evo Morales’s ratings at the end of 2013 reached 60 percent, enough to allow him a comfortable re-election [7] . But the situation could flare up closer to voting day because Evo Morales ...

07.04.2014

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