NEED TO KNOW CHILE Enough! Truckers recently joined protests in Chile, calling for an end to highway tolls. Hundreds of trucks drove […]

NEED TO KNOW HAITI A Perfect Storm Protests in Haiti have taken a heavy toll on the impoverished Caribbean nation in recent […]

NEED TO KNOW URUGUAY 30 Years of Solitude More than the presidency is at stake in Uruguay on Oct. 27. In addition […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA Flaws and Options Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has cavorted in blackface or brownface at least three times. […]

NEED TO KNOW ECUADOR Street Power Ecuadorian protesters recently seized six police officers in the capital of Quito, paraded them on a […]

NEED TO KNOW BOLIVIA Overstaying His Welcome Rain finally extinguished the massive wildfires that burned through almost 10 million acres of the […]

NEED TO KNOW THE AMAZON Burning Down the House This summer, a lot of people feared the Amazon rainforest might burn to […]

NEED TO KNOW ARGENTINA The Bad Old Days Argentine President Mauricio Macri recently visited the Shrine of Our Lord and Our Lady […]

NEED TO KNOW GUAM Historic Liabilities When Walter Denton was 13 years old and growing up in the US territory of Guam, […]

NEED TO KNOW CHILE Rats, Sewage and Humming Economies Free marketers have long championed the economic success of Chile. The South American […]

NEED TO KNOW AMAZON BASIN Gasping For Air Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been under fire for his stewardship of the precious Amazon […]

NEED TO KNOW GUATEMALA Passing the Buck Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, whose term ends in January, is leaving behind a crisis for […]

NEED TO KNOW PUERTO RICO Being Heard Puerto Rico was recently described as the world’s oldest colony. Now it’s the latest place […]

NEED TO KNOW ARGENTINA Lights Out A blackout struck Argentina in early June. Almost 50 million people in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay lost […]

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO Bound Together Mexican officials recently sold luxury houses, including one with an escape tunnel, in an auction of […]

NEED TO KNOW DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Paradise, Lost Four Americans died in the Dominican Republic last year, according to CBS News. At least […]