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Developing Countries Are in the Focus of the Electric Vehicle Ecosystem

3 Jun 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25

Despite the uncertainties in 2024, the market share of electric cars has become increasingly affordable in more markets and we are beginning to talk about it being on track to exceed 40% by 2030. Global sales of electric cars will exceed 20 million b...

The Repolux Arms

27 Jan 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"The life of a repo man is always intense."Repo Man   About a year ago, the CIA recruited me to be the manager of a chain of inner-city golf resorts throughout Latin America.  Intended as a refuge for rogue agents to unwind and let off some steam, Th...

Operation Gringo Liberator

22 Oct 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"An ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction."Simón Bolívar   Cuba is having a rough time.  Sometimes referred to as the North Carolina of Latin America, Cuba has been without power for days.  Decades, really. Ruled by Miguel Díaz...

American Caudillo

3 Sep 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"A caudillo (Spanish: [kawˈðiʎo]; Old Spanish: cabdillo, from Latincapitellum, diminutive of caput "head") is a type of personalistleader wielding military and political power."Wikipedia   I was tired and hungover today.  Not from drugs or alcohol, b...

Soul Sicarios

28 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The U.S. and West in general are still rich enough that people who don't understand the difference between dissent and a whiny, petulant sense of privilege and entitlement still get to indulge in a dismissive attitude toward their opponents, even if...

The Gringolux Arms

25 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"I have grown wings, I am flyingAscending fool, I am soaringUntied my wrists and flew away"A Wave of Hope   My handler told me not to say anything, but he's going to feed all relevant incriminating documentation to a horde of wild moon bores anyway,...

The Opera of Disconsolate Ingratitude

8 Nov 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"If you're smart talk before a drama formsThe world knows that violence brings violenceMany for their pride do not measure the consequences"Petare Barrio De Pakistán   1.  Medieval OGs vs. Islam & Communism Mexico has a bad reputation.  The exploits...

Ghosts of São Paulo

13 Oct 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I had a week to kill between the shows in São Paulo and Las Vegas, and I was out of money.  It's unlikely I would have returned to Vegas early anyway, when I was already in an exotic, faraway, and foreign place, but even if I'd have rather been in V...

Wet Cat in the Rain

10 Oct 2023 9 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."Eva Perón   Nick Cave once said something to the effect that he chose his band members based on how well they got along.  Playing ability is secondary.  Being able to live on a...

Live in Santiago

6 Oct 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Five years ago tonight was the night I arrived in Santiago, Chile.  A long flight down from Mexico City, with a transfer in Bogotá.  It was a long day.  The flight left Mexico City at dawn, and the arrival in Santiago wasn't until 9 or 10pm.  I forg...