Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz inherits a rustic mired in financial disaster after his victory in Sunday’s vote. Paz desires to make lithium – a strategic useful resource within the renewable power transition – an engine for financial restoration. However between renewing ties with Washington, resistance to privatisation, and burgeoning social and environmental protests, the difficulty might show to be a tinderbox.
Lithium: Can Bolivia’s new president revive the nation's 'white gold’ dream?
By Emily Turner
