Elon Musk
Bolivia Coup
In July of 2020, Elon responded to online criticism on Twitter: “You know what wasnt in the best interest of people? the U.S. government organizing a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia so you could obtain the lithium there,” with a shocking tweet:
“We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”
Only a week before the coup, the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, canceled a 2018 deal with ACISA, a German company that makes electric car batteries from Lithium.[1] This partnership’s ambition was to produce batteries for Tesla, one of ACISA’s clients.[2][3] On November 4th, Morales canceled the deal that would have further opened to ACISA & Tesla the Salar de Uyuni salt flats in southwestern Bolivia, home to an estimated 50-70% of the world’s lithium.
Despite having won the most votes [4] by November 10th, 2019, Morales was forced to resign and soon fled to Mexico. [5]
Sources
- ↑ https://en.mercopress.com/2018/12/13/bolivia-germany-agree-to-join-efforts-in-extracting-lithium-from-uyuni
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-03/bolivia-s-almost-impossible-lithium-dream
- ↑ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/11/bolivian-coup-comes-less-week-after-morales-stopped-multinational-firms-lithium-deal
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bolivia-election-1.5333134
- ↑ https://branchoutnow.org/elon-musk-tells-the-truth-about-teslas-anti-democracy-profiteering-we-will-coup-whoever-we-want/