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Eurasia connectivity and potential risks for the BRI and INSTC.

The war in Ukraine caused the rejection of the Western world towards Russia, who was disconnected from the financial system dominated by the West, its reserves abroad were confiscated, and it finds itself in a war against NATO in Ukraine that it does not dare to be declared. The explosion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is not an accident and it seeks to cut Russia's remaining ties with Europe, both in energetic and economical terms. Also, although the recent order issued against President Putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague will have no relevant effect on the global conflict, it is another tool in the information war and also seeks to cut Russia's remaining ties with Europe, this time in the legal and propaganda level. Motivated by the explosion of Nord Stream 2, a Russian-European infrastructure project, I propose to take a look at other infrastructure projects in Eurasia and pay attention to potential risks of sabotage or destabilization. In partic

The International North-South Transportation Corridor (INSTC)

One of the keys to the growth of the Middle East and the Central Asia regions beyond the oil trade are infrastructure projects and commodity trade routes. Coalitions like the BRICS have been strengthening the Eurasian region while connecting trade routes between Eurasia, Africa, and South America. The BRICS form a solid economic bloc in development that concentrates more than 40% of the world's population and approximately 25% of global GDP seeking cooperation and joint development of the bloc and its region as a counterweight to the pressure and destabilization from western coalitions and blocs. In addition, the BRICS seek to have some financial independence, with the New Development Bank (as an alternative to the World Bank), and economic independence, with possible trade routes, summits for emerging economies, and an informal preference for treatment among BRICS countries. Thus, driven primarily by China (the BRICS' main economic and financial power), that is und

The hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and the water from Mexico (Part 1: Panuco river and the Monterrey VI project).

I open an incoming series of publications with a topic I had read about some time ago, which is the natural gas and oil extraction by the hydraulic fracturing technique (dubbed as fracking). Despite of my education as physicist I will try not to get too technical and just explain the topic in such a way that is easy to understand, while being concise. First of all, my motivation to study around this topic is not to get the know-how, to extract oil and make me rich, but rather I got interested due to some old news about fracking. One of the first mandates from Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) when we took over the charge as president of Mexico, was to turn back the proposal about privatize the water in Mexico. An article (in spanish) in the La Jornada journal talks about it, based on a book by Dr. Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. The most frightening about this proposal was the idea of deviate the water coming from Panuco river by a project called "Monterrey VI". Even though the