Buying Baja
Via Hakai Magazine, a look at how – on a storied stretch of Mexico’s Baja peninsula – locals fight rich outsiders and rampant development that threaten to transform the coast and dry up [...]
Congo Brazzaville Now A LNG Exporting Country
Via U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a report on Congo Brazzaville’s LNG export industry: Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics [...]
US Announces Measures To Give Cuban Small Business A Boost
Via Reuters, a report on new US measures designed to give Cuban small business a boost: The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced regulatory changes to allow more American financial support [...]
Korean Builders Bet Big on Rwanda’s Fast-Growing Economy
Via The Korea Herald, an article on Korean builders’ interest in Rwanda: Some liken Rwanda to the “Singapore of Africa” due to its fast-growing economy and strategic focus on fintech. South [...]
US Tech Giants Building Dozens of Data Centers In Chile, But Locals Are Fighting Back
Via Rest of World, an article on the multiple Chilean groups which are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental [...]
The End of Secondhand Clothes
Via Foreign Policy, an article on how a major source of work for women in East Africa is suddenly under threat: At Kampala’s sprawling Owino market, Millicent Mukwezi opens up a bundle of [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.