"Authors of report “Mexico: Lithium exposed” are threatened", 06 April 2022

...The academician Violeta Núñez and the journalist Ernesto Ledezma received threats after the publication of the report Mexico: lithium uncovered, which shows the quantities of metal that are in Mexican territory and the existing capacity for its transformation process in the country.

The doctor in economics Violeta Núñez Rodríguez decided to answer the call from the telephone number from which they were insistently dialing her on the afternoon of Friday, April 1. She heard a woman’s voice...

“I understood that this was a death threat,” Violeta said in momentum the program from Rompviento TV in alliance with Pie de Página, broadcast four days later, on Tuesday, April 5...

It was a journalistic work that refutes two arguments put forward at length by the Mexican Mining Chamber: that lithium deposits in Sonora are poor and that, if there is one, the country lacks the technology to use it to make batteries.

The report not only shows the opposite, but also highlights the network of interests behind a campaign that opposes the lithium nationalization project, presented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The telephone threat was made at 6:39 p.m. In addition to the number to which Dr. Núñez responded, at least two more were employed, through whom they insistently called the private number of both the academic and the journalist Ernesto Ledezma...