The CPKC Railway Line Linking Mexico, the United States and Canada
February 25th, 2024
Opened last year, a look at the CPKC railway line linking Mexico, the United States and Canada: Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) began operations, the first railway line that commercially links Mexico, the United States and Canada , with a route of more than 32,000 kilometers to through the main cities and ports of the three nations. […]
Read more »The United States’ Missed Opportunity in Latin America
February 20th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, a look at U.S.’s missed opportunity to prioritize investing in Latin America: When policymakers consider national security, they tend to think first of military capabilities: the weaponry and ammunition a country possesses, the state of its armed forces, its border defenses, its surveillance and cybersecurity. Since 2020, however, U.S. national security […]
Read more »The Big Picture of Mexican Exports
February 13th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, a look at Mexico’s exports and recent data that suggest its pivot to Asia may pay off: Mexico’s economy made headlines late last week when the latest data from the U.S. Commerce Department showed that, for the first time in more than 20 years, Mexican exports to the U.S. surpassed exports from […]
Read more »U.S. Gas Producers Are Racing to Sell to Asia. And Mexico Is Key.
February 13th, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how, by next year, American natural gas will start flowing across Mexico to a major export terminal on the Pacific, reflecting a global energy landscape transformed by U.S. dominance in gas: ?As soon as next year, the United States’ fossil fuel industry will gain its first […]
Read more »Mexico Is America’s Answer to China’s Belt and Road
February 11th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how growing economic integration with Latin America could help the United States avoid the fate of an aging China: Every now and then, a narrowly framed news item offers up glimmers of pathways toward the possible resolution of much bigger problems. And so it was this week, with […]
Read more »For First Time in Two Decades, U.S. Buys More From Mexico Than China
February 8th, 2024
Via The New York Times, a report on data showing that the United States bought more goods from Mexico than China in 2023 for the first time in 20 years, evidence of how much global trade patterns have shifted: In the depths of the pandemic, as global supply chains buckled and the cost of shipping […]
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.