A South American Waterway Becomes A Cocaine Superhighway — To Europe
December 30th, 2024
Via The Washington Post, an article on a South American waterway that has become a cocaine superhighway to Europe: It was envisioned to be the Mississippi River of South America. The Paraguay-Paraná waterway runs about 2,100 miles, connects at least 150 ports in five countries and serves as the most important commercial river route on the […]
Read more »Bolivia’s Tragedy Will End in Devaluation, Default and Chaos
December 2nd, 2024
Via Bloomberg, commentary on how South America’s once-successful socialist story has collapsed. Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come. The plea was dramatic: If Bolivia’s government didn’t help the aviation industry to face urgent dollar-payment demands from suppliers, the landlocked country could end up without flights and isolated. It was the latest dismal event in the […]
Read more »Bolivia Seeks Oil & Gas Investment, Russia’s Help To Solve Energy Crunch
July 7th, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on Bolivia seeks oil and gas investment, Russia’s help to solve energy crunch: Bolivian state energy firm YPFB is looking to improve conditions for investment in the country’s flagging oil and gas sector and seeking help from Russia to overcome recent fuel shortages, the head of the company told Reuters. The […]
Read more »Bolivia’s Boom Has Turned to Bust, Fueling an Unlikely Presidential Comeback Bid
April 23rd, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a look at Bolivia, where a long-brewing financial crisis is potentially opening the way for President Luis Arce’s mentor-turned-rival, Evo Morales, to compete once again: In the thin air of El Alto, just below the Andean snowline, shoppers hunt for bargains at stalls selling cheap shoes, school books, cookware or counterfeit clothing. Signs […]
Read more »China’s Economic Slowdown Is a Wakeup Call for Latin America
February 9th, 2024
Via World Politics Review, a report on the impact that China’s economic slowdown may have upon Latin America: Over the past two decades, as China’s breakneck economic growth turned it into the engine of the global economy, Beijing became an increasingly powerful player in Latin America. It displaced the United States, long the top trading […]
Read more »The China-West Lithium Tango in South America
October 24th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how – despite the push toward decoupling – China-West collaboration persists in South America’s Lithium Triangle. But in the age of strategic competition, how long will this last? In the vast, almost haunting expanse of the high Argentine desert, beneath layers of brine and time, lies an element […]
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.