The past decade has seen major political upheaval in Latin America, but to understand what happened, ask first where your quinoa and lithium batteries came from. Recounting the story commodity by commodity, Andy Robinson reveals how a new generation of valuable resources - like coltan for smartphones, lithium for electric cars, and niobium for SpaceX rockets - have become important players in the fate of Latin America. Print run 35,000.
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