#bolivian EVs will be competitive with Tesla

[zvaigzdelasas]

It's a weird sort of defeatism I see whenever there's a story about a country in the global south discovering large reserves of some critical mineral or resource where people automatically go "oh no that's terrible for them" as if the "resource curse" is something that just passively happens instead of the results of active decisions by Imperialist Monopolistic Capital

Discovery of a resource to be exploited should - and moreover *can* - be a beacon of hope for increasing domestic manufacturing & moving local industry higher up the value chain & building qualitatively higher productive capacity without the need to service foreign speculative Capital.