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Bolivia’s president talks of nationalizing all natural resources
• http://www.rawstory.com, Agence France-Presse“Another policy ought to be how we recover, or nationalize, all natural resources, so they are in the people’s hands under state administration,” Morales told a social summit.
He said that since the state took over the telecom industry under his government, coverage has expanded to rural areas that had never been connected before.
Bolivia, now a key source of lithium used to make batteries for electric cars and laptops, is a key ally of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, Latin America’s highest-profile leftist leader.