NEED TO KNOW Death of a Salesman PERU Peru will cremate the remains of Abimael Guzmán, the founder of the Shining Path […]

NEED TO KNOW When Faith is All That’s Left VENEZUELA As public services crumble in their authoritarian, socialist country, desperate Venezuelans are […]

NEED TO KNOW ARGENTINA Capybaras at the Gate Giant rodents called capybaras have invaded an affluent gated community to the north of […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA King of the Mountain When Canadians go to the polls on September 20, they will have had a […]

NEED TO KNOW BOLIVIA Testing the Scales A lot is capturing Bolivians’ attention these days. Wildfires are raging through the forests. Cases […]

NEED TO KNOW HAITI A Country Named Despair In July, the president of Haiti was assassinated. In mid-August, an earthquake in the […]

NEED TO KNOW EL SALVADOR The Crypto Fiat Bitcoin has fascinated and frightened investors who love to watch its value rise (one […]

NEED TO KNOW PERU Hats, White and Black Peruvians living in the Andean town of Niño Jesús de Huarapite feel as if […]

NEED TO KNOW CUBA Patria y vida Food shortages and price spikes were the initial motivations for the anti-government demonstrations now rocking […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA The Heat’s On Cherries roasting on trees, crops baking in fields, mussels being boiled alive in the ocean […]

NEED TO KNOW HAITI The Plot to Nowhere The alleged conspirators who plotted the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse met repeatedly […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Cats and Dogs The experiences of our cats and dogs are windows into how humans suffered and endured […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA ‘Just Little Savages’ Canadian First Nation leaders found the remains of more than 200 former students – all […]

NEED TO KNOW NICARAGUA No Quarter Nicaraguan intellectual Emilio Álvarez Montalván once described his fellow citizens as “outgoing, imaginative, hard-working, and compassionate” […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD A Taxing Issue At their recent meeting in Britain, leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations accepted […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Borderlines Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei recently blamed the US for attracting migrants seeking a haven from violence and […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA Taxing the Air The Canadian Supreme Court this year issued an important decision with worldwide implications when its […]

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO Transformation on the Ballot President Andrés Manuel López Obrador – whose nickname is AMLO – wants to transform […]

NEED TO KNOW CAYMAN ISLANDS The Taxman Cometh The European Union removed the Cayman Islands from its so-called tax haven blacklist late […]

NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AMERICA Losing the Future So many players on Argentina’s powerhouse soccer team River Plate were sick with Covid-19 […]

NEED TO KNOW COLOMBIA Taxes, and Everything At first, they took to the streets to protest against a tax plan they called […]

NEED TO KNOW CUBA New Leader, Old Torch It was the end of an era when Raúl Castro resigned as chief of […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA Politics and Plague The Canadian military recently deployed to Ontario amid a scary surge of the coronavirus that […]