{"id":538378,"date":"2023-07-06T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/?p=538378"},"modified":"2023-09-27T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:31:12","slug":"chiles-new-lithium-policy-threatens-sectors-leading-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/en\/economy\/2023-07-06\/chiles-new-lithium-policy-threatens-sectors-leading-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile&#8217;s new lithium policy threatens sector&#8217;s leading firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Meritxell Freixas <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"media-content-img\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" src=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rss-efedac707ad34966101792a80581dbdc60356180c40w.jpg\" class=\"attachment-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb size-rss-efe-singlepost-thumb\" alt=\"An aerial view in October 2022 of SQM&#039;s lithium plant in Antofagasta, Chile. 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EFE\/Adriana Thomasa\/File\n\" data-image-title=\"Imagen-Chile&#8217;s new lithium policy threatens sector&#8217;s leading firm\" data-attachment-id=\"538383\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/imagen-chiles-new-lithium-policy-threatens-sectors-leading-firm-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/pre.efe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/rss-efedac707ad34966101792a80581dbdc60356180c40w.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1371\" \/><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santiago, Jul 6 (EFE).- President Gabriel Boric&#8217;s decision to nationalize Chile&#8217;s lithium industry could undermine the dominant position of SQM, a firm born during the 1973-1990 Pinochet dictatorship that has been at the center of scandals involving insider trading and illegal campaign contributions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the conglomerate remains a leading producer of potash, fertilizers, and other products, SQM has become increasingly focused on the extraction of lithium from the Atacama Salt Flats in northern Chile, the world&#8217;s third-largest reserve of the white metal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SQM is second only to Albemarle, based in the United States, as a provider of lithium, a vital component of batteries for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the scandals forced Julio Ponce Lerou to step down as chairman of the board in 2015, the former son-in-law of the late Gen. Augusto Pinochet has retained effective control of SQM, even after China&#8217;s Tianqi Lithium Corp acquired a 23-percent stake in the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under contracts signed in the mid-1990s, SQM&#8217;s privileged access to the Atacama deposit is set to continue until 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;SQM was and continues to be the pampered pet of the Santiago Stock Exchange, the one that reports the great revenues and profits,&#8221; business journalist Carlos Tromben told EFE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally state-owned, SQM was privatized in the early 1980s in a process directed by Ponce in his capacity as director of the relevant government agency and he assumed leadership of the remodeled enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The workers themselves became, in part, owners of the firm through the policy of so-called popular capitalism, pushed by the regime under the motto: &#8216;stop being a proletarian and become an owner,'&#8221; according to investigative reporter Sergio Jara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But within a few years, Ponce and other company executives bought up many of the workers&#8217; shares and set about creating a complex web of &#8220;cascada&#8221; (waterfall) companies that enabled them to control SQM with a small amount of capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The cascadas are paper corporations, with a pyramidal structure that has its chain of control in the Cayman Islands,&#8221; Jara told EFE, adding that the scheme allowed Ponce to borrow to buy more shares and pack the board of directors with cronies such as Hernan B\u00fcchi, a Cabinet minister under Pinochet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some in Chile hail Ponce, estimated by Forbes magazine to have a net worth of $3.5 billion, as a visionary who built SQM into a powerful company and grasped the potential of the Andean nation&#8217;s lithium reserves, but Jara cast doubt on that notion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We need to demythologize somewhat these great entrepreneurs who present themselves as if they were the only ones capable of succeeding with that level of natural resources. You don&#8217;t need to be a genius to do it,&#8221; the journalist said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through his stakes in several cascada companies, Ponce has the authority to appoint three of SQM&#8217;s eight directors, a former senior executive told EFE on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of the scandals over financial manipulation and illegal payments to politicians, SQM&#8217;s prestige suffered another blow in the form of convictions for violations of labor laws that included payoffs to corrupt union leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the continuance of its lucrative lithium concession on the line, SQM recently launched a public relations campaign to burnish its image. 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