German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heads to Argentina on Saturday for the first leg of his inaugural tour of South America as his government seeks to reduce Germany's economic dependence on China and strengthen relations with democracies worldwide.
On the three-day tour, Scholz, a Social Democrat, will visit the region's three top economies - Argentina, Chile and Brazil -, all currently led by leftist leaders in the region's new "pink tide".
"These three countries are all interesting partners for the diversification of our economic relations generally but also of our sourcing for commodities," a German government official said on Friday. Argentina and Chile sit atop South America's so-called "lithium triangle" which holds the world's largest trove of the ultra-light battery metal.
Deforestation in the Amazon reached its highest levels in 15 years under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
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