January 2011

Current Markets

The Politics of Cocoa

The Ivory Coast is caught in the middle of a major struggle. They are the world’s largest cocoa producer and are believed to have some of the largest untapped oil fields in the world. The country
should be laying the groundwork and creating the infrastructure to capitalize on their natural resources and developing as a nation. Instead, their nation is on the unsafe to travel list by the CIA
and they are on the brink of declaring marshal law.

Laurent Gbagbo has ruled the former French colony for the last ten years. He has been accused …