Paraguay Loves Mickey, Its Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn’t.
September 15th, 2024
Courtesy of the New York Times, an article on how Mickey, a homegrown food-packaging company, is famous for facing down Disney in Paraguay’s Supreme Court: One is a colossus spanning theme parks, merchandise and movies, with 150 Academy Awards, 225,000 employees and annual revenue of nearly $90 billion. The other is a third-generation family firm […]
Read more »Crypto Cowboys Have Found Paradise In Paraguay
August 1st, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how cheap electricity, lax laws and low taxes have attracted bitcoin miners to Paraguay: The country is used to drug busts and bank heists. But the hooded gunmen who recently burst into a warehouse in Minga Guazú, in Paraguay’s rural east, weren’t after cocaine, weed or cash. Instead they […]
Read more »Paraguay’s Economic Development Plan
March 24th, 2024
Via Merco Press, an article on Paraguay’s economic plans: President Santiago Peña highlighted Paraguay’s productive model and spoke about his country’s future in terms of economic and financial development in the panel “Spotlight on Latin America” sponsored by the Financial Times, it was reported Monday in Asunción. The head of state also pointed out that […]
Read more »China’s Economic Slowdown Is a Wakeup Call for Latin America
February 9th, 2024
Via World Politics Review, a report on the impact that China’s economic slowdown may have upon Latin America: Over the past two decades, as China’s breakneck economic growth turned it into the engine of the global economy, Beijing became an increasingly powerful player in Latin America. It displaced the United States, long the top trading […]
Read more »Paraguay Defends Ties With Economic Role Model Taiwan, But “Open To Trade With China”
September 22nd, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report on Paraguay’s economic strategies with Taiwan and China: Ties with Taipei won’t be broken, Santiago Peña said South American country open to trade with China, he added Paraguay’s leader defended his nation’s diplomatic ties with Taiwan and held up the Asian economy’s shift from agriculture to manufacturing as a model to […]
Read more »Paraguay and Titanium: Failure to Launch?
August 15th, 2023
Courtesy of Geopolitical Monitor, a look at Paraguay’s failed titanium sector: “Paraguay will become the center of global titanium production,” was the headline of a November 2010 article in the BBC. Almost a decade and a half later, titanium production in Paraguay has yet to begin. Even more, by the own admittance of the country’s authorities, […]
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.