A lot of people in the US don’t realize the extent to which Canadian mining interests dominate politics in South America like Canada is a very dangerous imperialist power to mess with and South America is increasingly becoming their fiefdom due to the amount of investment money the pour into the continent. Once you start looking at the activities of Canadian companies in South America closely, it gets very horrifying very quick
More than half the world’s mining companies are based in Toronto alone, “Canada” is a resource extraction conglomerate with global reach
Yes thank you! I didn’t have the sources at hand so thank you for adding so many. Just like the sheer mass of content available about it online always made me wonder why Americans had so little awareness of or interest in Canada’s resource extraction empire. It’s a very under-represented problem in The Discourse I feel like. Like the Canadian state and it’s allies directly intervene in foreign politics to help these mining companies. If I remember correctly the lithium mining company in question in Bolivia was Canadian, no?
I believe the lithium mines were a joint German-Bolivian operation, since Morales had nationalized parts of the mining industries in like 2008 they had majority Bolivian ownership with foreign partnerships in order to learn new techniques. There is still some Canadian gold mining in Bolivia and maybe some other metals, but i dont think the lithium was? I couldnt find any direct connections
ifesbob 