Brazil & Mexico: Transforming Latin American Convenience Stores
May 16th, 2023
Via Emerging Markets Today, an interesting look at how Brazil and Mexico are transforming the usual Latin American convenience store: Convenience stores (or c-stores) in Latin America have been expanding consistently in recent years. Due to shifting consumer preferences, urbanization, and the rising demand for products that can be used on the go, convenience stores […]
Read more »Mexican Gangs: Criminal Conglomerates
May 15th, 2023
Via The Economist, an article on the growing influence and scale of Mexican gangs: On May 3rd Mexico introduced a law applying strict controls on the import of chemicals used by Mexico’s gangs to make synthetic drugs. The law is backed by harsh criminal penalties. This is a striking move by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, […]
Read more »Mexico’s Brew Coup: The Real Reason Bud Light Sales Are Plunging
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an interesting look at Mexico’s global dominance in the beer market: After the Great Recession, the Dutch had a solid grip on the global beer market, powered by Holland hop heavyweight Heineken. But within a decade, the Netherlands — indeed all of Europe’s hoppy heartland — would be unceremoniously thrashed […]
Read more »Mexico and Peru: Soft Fruit Superpowers
April 18th, 2023
Via the World Economic Forum, a look at how Peru and Mexico boosted berry production hundreds of times over in just 10 years: Carlos Gereda didn’t know what he was starting when he brought some blueberries home to Peru from Chile in 2006. He wanted to know if they would grow in his native soil […]
Read more »Mexico’s Lopez Obrador Accelerates Lithium Nationalization
February 21st, 2023
Courtesy of Reuters, a report that Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador has ordered his government to step up lithium nationalization Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday signed a decree handing over responsibility for lithium reserves to the energy ministry, after nationalizing lithium deposits last April. During an event in Sonora, Lopez Obrador signed the decree […]
Read more »Mexico Will Benefit From Washington’s Chip Focus
February 9th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, a look at how Mexico will benefit from Washington’s focus on building a North American semiconductor supply chain: The United States is prioritizing the creation of a regional semiconductor production chain to give itself alternatives to Asian firms, especially those with ties to China. Even for the country that invented the semiconductor, […]
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.