With the largest lithium reserve in the world - the Salar de Uyuni - the State is the major player in the extraction and industrialization process of the "white gold". With revenues increasing 20-fold between 2020 and 2022, the Bolivian government has signed new contracts to continue expansion.

The relevance that lithium has gained is closely linked to the fact that it is a key mineral in the development of efficient energy storage systems. Such is its importance that the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, the creators of lithium-ion batteries, which enable electromobility.

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With the largest lithium reserve in the world - the Salar de Uyuni - the State is the major player in the extraction and industrialization process of the "white gold". With revenues increasing 20-fold between 2020 and 2022, the Bolivian government has signed new contracts to continue expansion.

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This is an estimate by the insurer Parametrix, which said that in the US alone, and in a partial estimate, the damage could be estimated at US$ 5.4 billion. The cybersecurity firm attributed the event to an error in a validator.

Aneel terminates the pole sharing process and there are complaints from operators

The National Electric Energy Agency assured that it will restart the debate to regulate the issue. The telecommunications regulator Anatel expressed its disagreement, as did the associations representing the operators.

The Undersecretariat of Information and Communication Technologies was created

Decree 644/2024 modified the organizational chart of the Cabinet Chief's Office. The new dependency is assigned the function of proposing plans and programs for the application of the Universal Service Trust Fund and assisting in the oversight of the regulatory entity Enacom.

The fiber optic network between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean is already under construction in Tehuantepec

The 1,200 kilometer network will cross the 200 kilometers of the Isthmus and will also connect towns in Oaxaca, Veracruz, Chiapas and Tabasco. The fiber will have 144 strands and will run parallel to the railway line. It will also extend to Guatemala.

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