Latin America's natural resources have always held tremendous appeal. Colombian writer, journalist, and Nobel Prize winner for literature Gabriel García Márquez explained that El Dorado - that golden delirium that appeared on numerous maps for many years, changing place and shape according to cartographers' imagination - became an obsession for the navigators who entered the New World. In a way, this fascination continues to this day.
Today, however, the search is no longer for gold but for the minerals that drive . . .