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A lithium bust leaves Latin American towns in the dust

Tolar Grande, a windswept settlement perched at 11,500 feet above sea level in northern Argentina, once received little more than a trickle of visitors. Then, in the late 2010s, hostels...

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View of Tolar Grande, in Salta Province, Argentina on October 1, 2025. Anita Pouchard Serra / Rest of World.
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Why Amazon is struggling to crack Argentina

A few weeks before Christmas, Amalia Bulacios found the perfect gift for her daughter. The Disney Princess backpack she wanted was around $40 on Amazon — a fourth of what...

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An automated bar code reader scans packages prepared for shipping at an Amazon Fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, US, on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. Over the past weekend, US buyers spent a record $10.9 billion online, according to data from Adobe, and the company expects consumers to splurge another $13.2 billion on Cyber Monday.
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