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Lithium, Morales and cocaine: What’s at stake as Bolivia votes?

Lithium, Morales and cocaine: What’s at stake as Bolivia votes?

DANIEL RAMOS AS Bolivia readies to vote in a defining election, a number of key issues are on the table, including the country's huge lithium deposits, the role of unseated ex-leader Evo Morales, and policy on farming coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine. Sunday's presidential ballot is a delayed re-run of a fraught and later voided vote in 2019 that sparked off deadly protests and led to the resignation of leftist Morales after a nearly 14-year rule. WHO ARE THE FRONT-RUNNERS? The two front-runners this time are Luis Arce, the candidate for Morales' socialist MAS party, who would tilt the…
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