A teoria litio → queda de Morales é duvidosa

Bolivia: lithium interests at play in Evo's ouster?, por Bill Weinberg (CounterVortex):

Bolivia's government issued a decree cancelling a massive joint lithium project with German multinational ACI Systems Alemania (ACISA)—just days before the ouster of President Evo Morales. The move came in response to protests by local residents in the southern department of Potosí, where the lithium-rich salt-flats are located. Potosí governor Juan Carlos Cejas reacted to the cancellation by blaming the protests on "agitators" seeking to undermine development in the region. (DW, Nov. 4)

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Which is why the breathless headlines implying a cause-and-effect relationship between the deal's cancellation and Evo's ouster (e.g. CommonDreams' "Bolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm's Lithium Deal") are missing some important context—and arguably reading things almost backwards. The anti-mining protests in Potosí were part of the general upsurge against Morales, and the deal's cancellation came two weeks into the national protest campaign demanding his ouster. (...)

So avoid the temptation of conspiracy theory. Lithium may be a piece of the overall scenario in Bolivia, but nothing suggests it was the central one. Evo's cancellation of the project was a capitulation to protests—so it isn't like the protests were being inflamed by the lithium interests or local brokers who stood to profit. On the contrary, the local brokers were MAS politicians and Evo's allies.