Image and Data: on Visualcapitalist.comThe top 10 EV battery manufacturers by total battery deployment (measured in megawatt-hours) in 2023. The data is from EV Volumes.Chinese DominanceContemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) has swiftly risen in less than a decade...
Photo: Artem Lupanchuk on PexelsFederico Reyes HerolesAll human inventions are fallible. Even those that receive the most attention. Francis Bacon asserted that knowledge arises more readily from error than from confusion. The Hindenburg collapsed. The Titanic sank. For example,...
Image: on state.govExecutive SummaryThere were no significant changes in the human rights situation in Mexico during the year.Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman, or...
Image: Dizain on ShutterstockAntonio NavalónI remember very clearly that during the Spanish democratic transition and, subsequently, after holding three general elections, we Spaniards discovered that the triumph of democracy was really based on something more than a simple change...
Image: Alex Shuper in collaboration with Unsplash+Ricardo Pascoe PierceNicaragua today lives a family dictatorship similar to that of Anastasio Somoza. It is a country that has gone from one dictatorship to another. It is a cursed inheritance, no doubt.NTI...
Photo: Tim Marshall on UnsplashRicardo Pascoe PierceThe phrase "Love is paid with love" is the invitation to do something unconfessable accompanied by a complicit silence. It is the admission that "the unconfessable" will remain between the two, creating a...
Image: on imf.orgGlobal recovery is steady but slow and differs by regionThe baseline forecast is for the world economy to continue growing at 3.2 percent during 2024 and 2025, at the same pace as in 2023. A slight acceleration...