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A historic ruling puts a stop to lithium exploitation in Argentina

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CECILIA VALDEZ
For years, the exploitation of lithium in Argentina has aroused enormous discontent among the native population due to its impact on the environment and living conditions. Following a demand from socio-environmental assemblies and indigenous peoples, the highest provincial court of Catamarca has prohibited the delivery of new permits for its exploitation and ordered that studies be carried out on the impact of all projects in the region.

Asia USA/Europe Principal4

The Zangezur corridor, the key piece of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
For Baku there are only two alternative routes to the long detour to bring its gas to Europe. The first is to transfer the gas to Turkey through northern Iran, although it is unfeasible. Tehran is one of Russia's closest partners in the region and has always distrusted Azerbaijan and its relations with the Azeri-Iranian minority, which it sees as a pan-Turkic fifth column within its own population.

America U.S. USA/Europe Europe Principal4

The judicial farce against Julian Assange

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FABIAN SCHEIDLER
If the US authorities manage to convict a journalist for exposing war crimes, this would have another serious consequence. In the future, it would be even more difficult and dangerous to expose the sordid reality of wars, especially those wars that Western governments like to sell as civilizing missions with the help of embedded journalists. If we don't know the truth about these wars, it will be much easier to fight them.

The journalist explains that the American CIA financed the coup d'état against the Allende Executive in 1973 with millions of dollars/ Photo: Cristina Candel.

U.S. Latin America Principal4

Mario Amorós: the implementation of the Allende experience was unacceptable for the US

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JAYRO SANCHEZ
Mario Amorós is a Spanish journalist and historian specialized in the history of Chile. He has written numerous works about this country, including internationally renowned biographies on Salvador Allende, Miguel Enríquez, Augusto Pinochet, Pablo Neruda and Víctor Jara. The first of them has been republished by Captain Swing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état.