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Can South American Lithium Power Biden’s Battery Plans?

Atacama desert

Washington needs lithium—but its history of intervention in the region complicates things. Read this fascinating article in Foreign Policy by Kathryn Ledebur, the director of the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and RDP Associate, Erika Weinthal, professor of environmental policy and public policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.