MercadoLibre: The ‘Amazon of Latin America’
February 6th, 2024
Courtesy of Fortune, an article on MercadoLibre, Latin America’s tech titan that was inspired by eBay and later launched a lucrative payments business akin to PayPal. It’s now worth roughly the equivalent of the two U.S. tech giants combined: When Marcos Galperin started online marketplace MercadoLibre in a parking garage, he wasn’t trying to evoke the origin […]
Read more »To Know Where the World Economy Is Headed, Look at the Bottom of a Toy Car
January 31st, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an interesting commentary on global manufacturing and emerging economies: What if I said you could read real world history on the underside of your kids’ Hot Wheels? In my Philippine childhood in the 1970s, my brother Hector and I played with die-cast toy cars. I remember the first time I […]
Read more »How Mexico Plans to Reclaim Its Economy
January 29th, 2024
Via Geopolitical Futures, a report on Mexico and plans to reclaim its economy from organized crime: In Mexico, security and economic recovery are intertwined. Politicians and citizens alike understand that the country’s powerful criminal groups threaten both, and though they broadly agree that something should be done, no one agrees on the best path forward. […]
Read more »Hungary and Mexico: Keys To BYD’s Global Dominance
January 19th, 2024
Via CNN, an article on how Hungary and Mexico could help BYD crack the global market: More than 5,000 electric vehicles were loaded onto a giant shipping carrier in China this week and sent to ports in Europe. The cars come from BYD, the Chinese carmaker that is backed by Warren Buffett and has surpassed Tesla as […]
Read more »How To Launch A Chinese Smartphone In Mexico
January 17th, 2024
Via Rest of World, an interesting brief on efforts to guide Infinix’s Mexico expansion, facing off against Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo: Antonio Tercero is country manager in Mexico for Infinix, a Chinese-owned smartphone brand that launched in Latin America in 2022. For decades, Infinix’s parent company, Transsion, has been one of the top-selling smartphone companies in […]
Read more »China’s Shifting Ties in Latin America
January 8th, 2024
Via The Wire China, an interview with Alicia García-Herrero on China’s shifting ties in Latin America: Q: When we talk about “Latin America” we mean roughly 20 countries stretching from the Texan border to Antarctica. That makes for a lot of variety in their approaches to China. Can you outline the different camps? A: I […]
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.