Copper: Now and in the Future
October 12th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, an interesting look at the geopolitical challenges in copper mining are significant, particularly in Latin America and Africa: Copper is crucial to the global economy, and its importance is only going up. Historically, copper has been vital in construction, electrical networks and transportation. But now it is also in high demand as […]
Read more »Driving Change: How EVs Are Reshaping China’s Economic Relationship with Latin America
September 28th, 2024
Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a report on how Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are navigating a new geopolitical moment. Some LAC countries are benefitting from increased access to low-cost, high-quality electric vehicles (EVs) and new investment throughout the value chain from China that can help meet governments’ […]
Read more »China Is Gobbling up Chile’s Energy Sector
September 27th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at Chile which is one of many Latin American countries where Chinese investment has quietly come to dominate key industries: In recent weeks, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown and U.S. Southern Command General Laura Richardson visited Chile, attending a multinational exercise and discussing military-to-military cooperation, […]
Read more »Foreign Investment Trends in Latin America
September 8th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, a report on FDI trends in Latin America, where FDI is in high demand, but most goes to just a few countries: Latin American countries remain trapped in a low-growth environment, hindered by economic volatility, high inequality and ineffective governance. As a result, many governments in the region are turning to foreign […]
Read more »A $2 Trillion Reckoning Looms as Ports Become Pawns in Geopolitics
August 21st, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on how ports have become pawns in geopolitics, as these gateways to global trade face costly conversions to retool in new era of rivalry, automation and green energy: For centuries, control of the world’s biggest shipping centers helped expand empires, spark and settle wars, ease poverty and build middle classes while […]
Read more »Chile Gambles on Green Hydrogen In Far South
June 5th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, a report on Chile’s green hydrogen gamble in theMagallanes: The Chilean government has set out ambitious plans and targets to develop green hydrogen, and to grow an industry it believes holds much promise for the country. Chile has some of the best natural conditions in the world for the renewable energy needed to produce […]
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.