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

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

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The 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…

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