Venezuela Has More Than Just Oil and China Knows It
June 10th, 2023
Via National Interest, a look at why Venezuela’s mineral wealth is of particular interest to Beijing, and why the CCP is willing to invest heavily to ensure its extraction: On May 17, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro received a delegation group led by Lin Mingxiang, vice minister of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s […]
Read more »Petrobras Eyes New Investments In Guyana, Venezuela and Bolivia
June 3rd, 2023
Via Upstream Online, a report that Brazil’s Petrobras is eyeing new investments in Guyana, Venezuela and Bolivia: Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras is assessing the possibility of carrying out fresh investments throughout South America. The signalling of a possible to return to regional investments came as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week […]
Read more »How the Ukraine War Gave Venezuelan Oil an Opening
June 2nd, 2023
Courtesy of Geopolitical Futures, a report on how Caracas is taking advantage of a key opportunity to revive its energy sector: For years, the Venezuelan economy has been largely disconnected from Western markets. The war in Ukraine, however, initiated a sort of restructuring of the global energy market, sparking renewed interest in Venezuela’s potential as […]
Read more »Say Cheese! Argentina & Venezuela Produce More Cheese Than Switzerland
March 1st, 2023
Courtesy of Latinometrics, a surprising graphic on Argentina and Venezuela’s cheese production: The first cheese factory in the world opened its doors in Switzerland in 1815. However, the first concrete evidence of cheese-making comes from present-day Poland, making the food staple 7.5K+ years old and deeply ingrained in European culture. Needless to say, they’ve mastered the craft. In fact, […]
Read more »Mapped: 2023 Inflation Forecasts by Country
February 19th, 2023
Courtesy of Visual Capitalist, a very interesting graphical look at inflation forecasts for 2023 – with Venezuela, Argentina, and Zimbabwe showing the highest estimates: Mapped: 2023 Inflation Forecasts by Country This was originally posted on Advisor Channel. Sign up to the free mailing list to get beautiful visualizations on financial markets that help advisors and their clients. Inflation […]
Read more »Venezuela Claims Nearly Three-Quarters of Guyana
February 18th, 2023
Via The Washington Post, a report on the Venezuela/Guyana border dispute: For decades, maps and charts produced by Venezuela have represented the 61,000-square-mile territory — nearly three-quarters of Guyana — as an integral part of … Venezuela. It’s what governments in Caracas of all ideologies have argued, what generations of schoolchildren have been taught. It’s […]
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.