Lithium – known as ‘white gold’ – is a key metal used in batteries and increasingly important to the world car industry
Britain’s Foreign Office appears to have paid Oxford-based company to optimise ‘exploitation’ of Bolivia’s lithium deposits the month after Morales fled country
UK embassy acted as ‘strategic partner’ to coup regime and organised international mining event in Bolivia four months after democracy overthrown
UK firm founded by British Army veteran was ‘now in line to offer its services’ to mining companies, Foreign Office noted after event
UK embassy provided data for the now discredited international report which was used to justify 2019 coup
BRITAIN supported the military coup in Bolivia to gain access to the country’s lithium reserves, an investigation by Declassifed UK claimed today.
The British embassy in La Paz supported Bolivia’s new regime after socialist president Evo Morales was forced to resign, despite the deadly violence that was condemned by human-rights groups following the coup, according to Foreign Office documents seen by the investigative news site.
Declassified has seen a project list for a Foreign Office programme in Bolivia named “Frontline Diplomatic Enabling Activity,” which the British government describes as a “small pot of money that [embassies] receive and have authority over to spend on projects supporting [embassy] activity.”
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