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 […]

NEED TO KNOW Rumbles in the Household CANADA French-speaking Canadians concentrated in the province of Quebec have long sought more autonomy from […]

NEED TO KNOW Murder, and Other Disasters ECUADOR Under the conservative government of President Guillermo Lasso, Ecuador’s economy grew 3.2 percent last […]

NEED TO KNOW The Exile and the Mob BRAZIL The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, might finally be planning to return […]

NEED TO KNOW Breathing Politics BRAZIL On Jan. 1, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as the new president of […]

NEED TO KNOW Cry For Me ARGENTINA The throngs that crowded Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities after the South American country’s […]

Editor’s Note: Last month, we asked our readers to select a country for us to focus on and collected the results. Now, […]

Editor’s Note: Last month, we asked our readers to select a country for us to focus on and collected the results. Now, […]

NEED TO KNOW Rule By Chaos PERU Foreign tourists were recently stranded at Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Incan citadel and UNESCO World […]

NEED TO KNOW Quitting, Loudly CHILE Irina Karamanos recently resigned from her position as First Lady of Chile. She is still Chilean […]

NEED TO KNOW Inviting Locusts GUATEMALA Guatemalan authorities recently detained two Americans for attempting to steal scores of Mayan artifacts – “stone […]