TO GO WITH AFP SPECIAL REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE COP27 - AFP STORY by Martin SILVA
Aerial view of the arid desert plain near the Kolla indigenous community of Santuario de Tres Pozos, which in 2019 expelled two mining companies from the nearby Salinas Grandes salt flat, in the northern province of Jujuy, Argentina, taken on October 18, 2022. - The turquoise glimmer of open-air pools meets the dazzling white of a seemingly endless salt desert where hope and disillusionment collide in Latin America's "lithium triangle." A key component of batteries used in electric cars, demand has exploded for the "white gold" found in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile in quantities larger than anywhere else in the world. (Photo by Martín SILVA / AFP)