Monthly Archives: November 2011

On again.: After five hours of meetings between their delegations, Chavez and Santos also signed a dozen cooperation accords in oil, gas, trade and other sectors. Among them was an agreement for Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol to join Venezuelan … Continue reading →

Who do you trust for advice on Colombia oil stocks? Back on Feb. 10, you could have ” listened to Jim Cramer, Bloomberg, and many Colombian brokerages who were pawning off shares of newly listed oil companies onto the locals. … Continue reading →

Major Latin American currencies, 2-year chart: I am no currencies expert, and surely there are a dozen or more regular readers who could explain this chart better than I could. So I’m just going to make a comment: Next time … Continue reading →

Chile exports a lot of copper. More than half its exports are copper. And just as the gringos always seeks new uses for soybeans and corn, Chile never ceases to invent new uses for copper. The latest is copper combs. … Continue reading →

What’s up with everyone putting out good stuff on Thanksgiving? While you nibble leftover cranberries, read this long, detailed, and very well written article about life in and around the Rubiales field in Colombia. And give thanks that you, hopefully, … Continue reading →

Mmm beer. The Interamerican Development Bank sent out a press release yesterday saying they would help finance Mexico’s biggest wind farm, a 392-megawatt installation. It will provide electricity to FEMSA (a bottler of soft drinks) and CCM-Heineken. Since the IADB … Continue reading →

I don’t know anything about this, but I see that Hortensia Margarita Shortt has filed for international arbitration against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela over something about maritime transport services. What appears to be interesting about it is her last … Continue reading →

Some outfit called Wealth-X claims to have come up with a guess of how many ridiculously rich people there are in each country in the world. (Ridiculously rich=net worth of more than USD$30 million) They have a special page on … Continue reading →