Editorial, El Diario: The so-called industrialization of the country, loudly proclaimed since 2006, is an affair worthy of public attention due to the scandalous failure it led to. This, after the MAS regime claimed it would be one of the pillars of the economy of the Plurinational State—along with other niceties from the “first indigenous…
Category: Energy
Lithium: Third Stage | Litio: tercera etapa
By Juan Jose Toro, Vision 360: While all attempts to exploit Bolivian lithium have failed, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, which have smaller salt flats, have taken the lead. A wave of protests has erupted in different parts of the country against the contracts that the central government has signed with two foreign companies for the…
Bolivia estalla en protestas por la toma del suministro de litio por empresas chinas y rusas | Bolivia Erupts in Protest over Chinese and Russian Companies Taking over Lithium Supply
Por CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO, Breitbart: Bolivia debe pagar más de $2 mil millones más intereses a las empresas chinas y rusas que construyen plantas de procesamiento de litio en el país, informó el periódico boliviano El Deber el miércoles, a pesar de que Bolivia ya les había ofrecido derechos preferenciales de extracción. Bolivia alberga algunas de las…
With tilin, shady contracts emerge as corruption booms! | ¡Con tilín surgen contratos turbios mientras la corrupción crece!
By Erbol: IN THE IMPERIAL CITY Potosinos mobilize in defense of lithium and question the contracts There were two marches, one by Comcipo and another by UATF. Photos: Al Punto Noticias and Potosí Digital. Different entities in Potosí held protest marches this Monday in defense of the department’s lithium reserves. This comes amid controversy over…
Bolivia Prepares to Launch Its First Bitcoin Mining Operation | Bolivia se prepara para explotar su primera mina de Bitcoins
By El Diario: The gas that Bolivia burns in its wells and the residues from sugarcane can be used to generate electricity to power Bitcoin mining centers. These centers convert energy into computing power, which connects to cryptocurrency mining pools via the internet. Diego Monroy Marinkovic, a project engineer for power generation with Capstone microturbines…
Are lithium contracts profitable? | ¿Son rentables los contratos del litio?
By Francesco Zaratti: The profitability of the contracts that “Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos” (YLB) intends to sign with the Russian company Uranium and the Chinese consortium CBC is their real Achilles heel. The expenses of the project are determined by each company’s investments and operating costs, so that, to justify the profitability of these contracts,…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 