China Expands Its Economic Reach Into The United States’ Backyard
May 20th, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, an article on China expanded economic reach into Central and South America: In early March 2023, General Laura Richardson, head of the United States Southern Command, told a US congressional hearing that Chinese actions in South America posed a threat to US safety. According to General Richardson, China is on a […]
Read more »Nicaragua’s Proposed Canal: A Man, A Plan— And Little Else
October 11th, 2013
Via The Economist, an interesting article on Nicaragua’s proposed canal mega project: NOT since the civil war of the 1980s have so many helicopters been clattering over remote parts of Nicaragua. But now the guys squinting down through the tree canopy are in suits: lawyers and business consultants from the United States, Australian engineers, British […]
Read more »Nicaragua’s Canal Dream
June 15th, 2013
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, a report on Nicaragua’s plans to build an interoceanic canal: Nicaragua’s legislators gave their poverty-stricken country one more chance at a dream that has eluded it for nearly 200 years, granting a Hong Kong company the right to build a $40 billion interoceanic canal. Supporters of the 50-year concession, […]
Read more »Wireline Politics: Russia’s Telecom Diplomacy in Central & South America
October 2nd, 2009
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an interesting report on Russian investment in Nicaragua and Venezuela, and some likely geopolitical quid pro quos. As the report notes: “…Nicaragua’s decision to legitimize Russia’s geopolitical adventures and recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia was rather odd (I am still curious as to how many Nicaraguans were aware […]
Read more »Iran and Latin America: An Axis of Unity
December 29th, 2007
An interesting story in The San Antonio Express-News on Iran’s recent partnership with Nicaragua and Venezuela to help finance a $350 million deep-water port on Nicaragua’s wild Caribbean shore, and then plow a connecting “dry canal” corridor of pipelines, rails and highways across the country to the populous Pacific Ocean. The dry canal scheme has […]
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.