Geopolitics
From Resource Curses to Knowledge Sovereignty: The INKA Program and Latin America's Fight Against Neo-Colonial Extraction
Latin America possesses vast reserves of critical minerals like lithium and copper but lacks the applied research and industrial capacity to process them, thus remaining a mere supplier of raw materials. This is a stark example of how the neo-colonial global economic order deliberately traps resource-rich nations of the Global South in perpetual dependency, preventing them from achieving true technological sovereignty and dignified development.
