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Please don't recirculate the latest breathless, and baseless claims about lithium and the Bolivian coup in 2019.Permalink On twitter.com
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As a reminder, the Bolivian protesters who demanded that existing lithium projects be stopped or renegotiated on better terms (i.e., the anti-imperialists on this particular issue) also protested against Evo Morales' reelection.On twitter.com
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Evo conceded their demands in part to assuage protests. (It didn't work.) Yet a narrative developed in the west that the election protests were all a plot engineered to punish Evo for doing that.Permalink On twitter.com
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This story has legs (it keeps getting passed around), but no body (there's no coherent narrative). Extra legs have been provided by Evo Morales' enthusiasm for it, and Elon Musk's absurd twitter confession ("We will coup whoever we want!").Permalink On twitter.com
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New British reporting adds little to the picture despite insinuations of impropriety. It is something of a master class in conspiracy theorizing, though.Permalink On twitter.com
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For example this shocker: UK diplomats worked with Chatham House, who in turn work with the UK Foreign Office and the British Army, and in turn with Anglo-American corporations.Permalink On twitter.com
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Or this… I'm all for this as a jumping off point for investigation. The relevant question is whether these kinds of trainings distorted the media coverage of the election. Because, surprise, there's a ton of a fake news in Bolivia.Permalink On twitter.com
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The big lithium reveal is that the UK embassy spent £5000 promoting Lithium collaboration in 2019-20 and wouldn't confirm this money wasn't spent after the Áñez coup. Same document shows a £31000 expense in 2017 to collaborate w Evo Morales.Permalink On twitter.com