NEED TO KNOW Mopping Up GUATEMALA Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo won Guatemala’s presidential election on Aug. 20, garnering a clear mandate with […]

NEED TO KNOW Taming Through Terror ECUADOR Just a few years ago, Ecuador, sandwiched between narco-states Peru and Colombia, then grappling with […]

NEED TO KNOW On the Side of Life COLOMBIA Pablo Beltran recently visited Bogota, the capital of his native country Colombia, for […]

NEED TO KNOW An Antiquated Model BOLIVIA China has invested more than a billion dollars in lithium and other mines in Bolivia. […]

NEED TO KNOW Declaring War BRAZIL Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is leading the charge to protect the Amazonian rainforest. […]

NEED TO KNOW Past and Present URUGUAY The Admiral Graf Spee was a German warship scuttled in 1939 in Montevideo Bay in […]

NEED TO KNOW Not Going Anywhere MEXICO Since he began his six-year term of office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel […]

NEED TO KNOW Community Policing HONDURAS The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has earned plaudits from many of his people – […]

NEED TO KNOW The Fix Is In GUATEMALA A Guatemalan court recently convicted newspaper publisher José Rubén Zamora of money laundering and […]

NEED TO KNOW Hot Stuff CANADA In an example of climate change arousing an international effort, firefighters from around the globe have […]

NEED TO KNOW Intrigue in the Palace COLOMBIA Leftist leaders from around the globe recently issued an open letter to the Colombian […]

NEED TO KNOW ‘Cool’ Crimefighting EL SALVADOR A judge in El Salvador recently sentenced the former president of the country, Mauricio Funes, […]

NEED TO KNOW The Meanest of Streets HAITI Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently called for the richest countries in […]

NEED TO KNOW The Ephemeral Ballot VENEZUELA Venezuelan voters are supposed to go to the polls sometime next year to elect a […]

NEED TO KNOW Bona Fides and Possibilities CHILE Early last year, shortly after he was elected president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, 37, […]

NEED TO KNOW Change and Its Discontents PARAGUAY Presidents from the Colorado Party have ruled Paraguay for all but five years since […]

NEED TO KNOW Paradise, Imperfect COSTA RICA Those who live in Costa Rica practice what they refer to as the “pure life.” […]

NEED TO KNOW On the Precipice SURINAME Suriname’s gross domestic product (GDP) plunged by 16 percent during the coronavirus pandemic – the […]

NEED TO KNOW Taking Out the Trash NICARAGUA Nicaraguan officials recently aired a prison interview with Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who in […]

NEED TO KNOW The Forever Search MEXICO In what the BBC called a “twisted moral code,” Mexican mobsters affiliated with the Scorpions […]

NEED TO KNOW Voting With Feet CUBA Almost 23 years ago, heavily armed federal agents wearing body armor seized five-year-old Elián González from […]

NEED TO KNOW S.O.S. HAITI The United Nations has appointed Ecuadoran diplomat Maria Isabel Salvador to help Haiti rebuild after a devastating […]

NEED TO KNOW A Dragon in the Shadows PARAGUAY When voters in Paraguay go to the polls on April 30, they will […]

NEED TO KNOW Revolt of the Incas PERU The Peruvian city of Juliaca recently felt like a warzone. “Burning pyres of rubbish […]