Blinded, sexually assaulted, silenced: the war over lithium, Argentina's 'white gold'

In the country's 'lithium triangle' activists say Indigenous land protections have been removed and protests against mining violently repressedThe first time, they came at 2am and without a warrant. Rosa* was alone. She was gagged, her eyes covered, and her hands bound with a cable tie."I was paralysed. I felt someone choking me," Rosa recalls. "They called me a socialist, a whore. I was in my underwear; they touched me. One put his fingers inside of me." Continue reading...