Argentina Steps on the Gas
July 17th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at Argentina’s gas future and how completion of a major pipeline is part of a shift in the region’s energy map—and its politics: For decades, Bolivia has been one of South America’s biggest natural gas exporters. The country’s abundant gas reserves began being pumped in earnest in the 1970s and […]
Read more »China: Secretly Fueling A Renewable Energy Boom in Latin America
July 16th, 2023
Via Fortune, an article on China’s renewable energy-driven interest in Latin America: The story of renewable energy’s rapid rise in Latin America often focuses on Chinese influence, and for good reason. China’s government, banks and companies have propelled the continent’s energy transition, with about 90% of all wind and solar technologies installed there produced by Chinese companies. […]
Read more »Young Zambians Want To Make Lusaka An African Animation Hub
July 16th, 2023
Courtesy of Semafor, a look at efforts to make Zambia an African animation hub: When Netflix launches Supa Team 4, its first-ever original African animated series, it will be a significant milestone for young Zambian animators who have turned the southern African country into an unheralded animation hub. Supa Team 4 was created by Lusaka-based […]
Read more »A Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: China’s Pivot to the Middle East Set to Fuel Investment Boom
July 15th, 2023
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, a look at how China’s pivot to the Middle East is set to fuel a significant investment windfall for Chinese businesses from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds: China’s increasing political clout in the Middle East is fueling a push to develop more economic ties. A key part of that: […]
Read more »Honduras Explores Chinese Interest in Investing in $20 Billion Rail Line
July 15th, 2023
Via US News, a report that Honduras is exploring Chinese interest in investing in a $20B rail project: The Honduran government on Friday told Chinese officials it is seeking investors to help fund construction of a proposed $20 billion rail line connecting the country’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, part of a binational trade and investment […]
Read more »Trading Chickens for a Fragile State
July 15th, 2023
Via The National Interest, a look at South Africa’s poultry crisis and how trade practices promulgated in North America, Europe, and the UK have a stake in the outcome, beyond the chicken trade, not just for South Africa but many other developing nations as well: Africa is littered with the economic debris of predatory trade […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.