{"podcast":{"title":"Latin America in Focus","slug":"latin-america-in-focus-50000","podcast_index_feed_id":50000,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/_DUdLkxj","website_url":"https://www.as-coa.org/podcast","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5a178289-28ad-46e7-8146-1f8fbe6c0550/7b171ca4-4b5f-4a8f-acbf-4a1425085bee/3000x3000/podcast-cover.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"AS/COA Online","episode_count":237,"summary":"Go in depth on the latest trends in Latin American politics, economics, and culture in this podcast series by Americas Society/Council of the Americas.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000"},"episode":{"title":"Can Rodrigo Paz Unearth Bolivia’s Lithium Potential?","slug":"can-rodrigo-paz-unearth-bolivia-s-lithium-potential","published_at":"2025-11-13T05:29:06+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000/can-rodrigo-paz-unearth-bolivia-s-lithium-potential","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000","url":"https://www.as-coa.org/articles/latam-focus-can-rodrigo-paz-unearth-bolivias-lithium-potential","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.simplecast.com/audio/5a178289-28ad-46e7-8146-1f8fbe6c0550/episodes/8216ea80-01ad-4525-ac6d-b011e43eb45b/audio/12c4abdc-9d48-4b1f-ba58-6089781ec56a/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=_DUdLkxj","summary":"For decades, Bolivia’s abundant reserves of lithium, thought to be the largest in the world, have been touted as the country’s ticket to economic prosperity. But time and again, the sector has run into political hurdles, social resistance, technical issues, and a lack of investment. As newly inaugurated President Rodrigo Paz enters office under a promise of “Capitalism for all,” what will it take to get Bolivia’s lithium sector off—and out from under—the ground? In this episode, political scientist Dr. Diego von Vacano of Texas A&M University, unpacks Bolivia’s decades-long struggle to advance its lithium industry, how it compares with Chile and Argentina—the other two points of the “lithium triangle,” and prospects for Paz to attract the foreign investment needed to develop critical technological infrastructure while attending to social and environmental concerns.","meta_description":"For decades, Bolivia’s abundant reserves of lithium, thought to be the largest in the world, have been touted as the country’s ticket to economic prosperi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1615,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/latin-america-in-focus-50000/episodes/can-rodrigo-paz-unearth-bolivia-s-lithium-potential/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/latin-america-in-focus-50000/can-rodrigo-paz-unearth-bolivia-s-lithium-potential.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}