China Widens South America Trade Highway with Silk Road Mega Port
January 19th, 2024
Via The Frontier Post, a report on China’s effort to widen a South America trade highway with a Silk Road mega port in Peru: In September, a group of Brazilian farmers and officials arrived in the Peruvian fishing town of Chancay. The draw: a new Chinese mega port rising on the Pacific coast, promising to […]
Read more »Japan’s Strategic Investment Offensive
December 13th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, a look at how – unlike Beijing – Tokyo is targeting specific regions in Central Asia and Latin America, as well as, sectors to enhance its influence: As Japan grows more ambitious as a regional leader, it has enhanced its diplomatic outreach accordingly. In late November, for example, reports emerged that Tokyo […]
Read more »US Raises Concern With Peru Over Chinese Control of Infrastructure
October 9th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on U.S. concern with Chinese control over Peruvian infrastructure such as the power supply to Lima and a megaport serving Pacific Cosco at Chancay, 70km north of Lima, that will be capable of berthing some of the world’s largest cargo ships: The US has expressed concern to Peru […]
Read more »The DRC: World’s New No. 2 Copper Supplier
June 2nd, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a report on the DRC’s continued growth in copper production: The Democratic Republic of Congo displaced Peru as the second-biggest copper exporter last year, official data from the two countries show, in a changing of the guard for the mining industry. While the numbers used in the chart below refer to shipments rather […]
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 »Olmos Irrigation Project: Potential To Transform Northern Peru
February 20th, 2023
Via Gateway to South America, a report on a massive hydrological project that has the potential to transform northern Peru: Since before Inca times (XV-XVI centuries), Peruvian people constrained by the Central Andes region geographical characteristics have strived to dominate water for agriculture. Perú climate zones: Coast, Sierra and Forest Irigation channel in […]
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