A South American Waterway Becomes A Cocaine Superhighway — To Europe
December 30th, 2024
Via The Washington Post, an article on a South American waterway that has become a cocaine superhighway to Europe: It was envisioned to be the Mississippi River of South America. The Paraguay-Paraná waterway runs about 2,100 miles, connects at least 150 ports in five countries and serves as the most important commercial river route on the […]
Read more »The Uruguayan Company Teaching People How To Turn Regular Cars Into EVs
August 29th, 2024
Courtesy of Rest of World, an article on Organización Autolibre, the Uruguayan company that is teaching individuals and companies across 14 countries to retrofit vehicles: Turning gas-fueled cars into electric ones can be four times cheaper than buying a new EV. Retrofitting, as the practice is known, is gaining traction in Latin America. Citing safety […]
Read more »Green Silk Road? Chinese Clean Tech Pours Into Latin America
April 14th, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on the Chinese green technologies pouring into Latin America, prompting anxiety in the United States about security, coercion and competition: From the snazzy seats of the e14 bus in Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital, it is hard to tell that the smooth electric machine is Chinese. Only an eagle-eyed commuter would spot the […]
Read more »Energy Giants Place Tentative Bets On Oil Finds In ‘Wildcat’ Uruguay
September 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Reuters, an article on firms’ exploration of potential oil finds in ‘wildcat’ Uruguay: Uruguay state-run energy firm Ancap is set to agree to final terms for a record number of seven offshore exploration licenses next month, a senior executive told Reuters, as the frontier market lures bets from global players like Shell (SHEL.L). […]
Read more »U.S. Tech Firms Are Replacing Workers With Cheaper Talent In Latin America
January 17th, 2023
Via Rest of World, a look at how U.S. tech firms are replacing workers with cheaper talent in Latin America: For Andrea Campos, founder of the Mexico-based mental health app Yana, finding developer talent nowadays reminds her of the dating scene growing up in Cancún. “If you wanted a boyfriend, you had to accept the hard […]
Read more »Uruguay: Plotting To Poach Argentina’s Tech Sector
December 9th, 2022
Courtesy of Rest of World, an interesting report on how – escaping crisis – Argentine tech workers want to recreate their home startup scene just across the river Across the world, the arrival of digital nomads is a sign of issues to come — with “gentrification” being the watchword for a myriad of tensions between […]
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.