NEED TO KNOW HAITI Problem Child Haitian Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe resigned recently. He served for around a year, wrote Al Jazeera, […]

NEED TO KNOW CUBA The Little Engine That Could Even as Cuba remains isolated from the US, it’s poised to become the […]

NEED TO KNOW CHILE Change, Deferred The coronavirus has forced many people to shelve their plans. In Chile, the pandemic is preventing […]

NEED TO KNOW PERU Uncle Porky and the Spoilers Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned three years ago over allegations of bribery […]

NEED TO KNOW CURAÇAO The Ties That Bind The Dutch islands of the Caribbean are working hard to make it easier for […]

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO ‘Disappearance’: The Noun, The Weapon Mexicans uncover on average two clandestine graves a day. They often belong to […]

NEED TO KNOW EL SALVADOR A New Kind of Ugly It’s possible that El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele came to Washington, DC […]

NEED TO KNOW HAITI Eras New and Old One of the poorest countries in the world, Haiti, is embroiled in a new […]

NEED TO KNOW TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS Health and Wealth Premier Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, who runs the British overseas territory of the Turks […]

NEED TO KNOW ECUADOR Rescue Us Ecuadorans hope whoever wins their upcoming presidential election will throw them a lifeline. That’s because in […]

NEED TO KNOW CUBA Intolerable Brutality Outrage and social media are fueling a popular uprising against the government’s power in Cuba. Late […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Respect Who’s First If confirmed as US Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland will become the first Native […]

NEED TO KNOW CANADA Bearded Wisdom Where the US and Canada meet has long been celebrated as the longest unguarded border in […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Trouble Spots Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting together a team of defense officials, security experts and diplomats […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD New Guard, Old Challenges Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev recently wrote that President Donald Trump has made a […]

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO Self-Help President-Elect Joe Biden wants to step up anti-corruption efforts in Mexico. It’s not clear that Mexican officials […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD A Riot Felt ‘Round the World German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted a comparison between the assault on the US […]

NEED TO KNOW WORLD Here’s to Hope Well, it was quite a year. It’s safe to say the big international story was […]

NEED TO KNOW VENEZUELA Misery and Conspiracy In the US, the power of communist Venezuela is the stuff of conspiracy theories. But […]

NEED TO KNOW GUATEMALA ‘Just Another Son of a Bitch’ Political economist Mark Blyth once called austerity a dangerous idea. Guatemala might […]

NEED TO KNOW PERU Too Many Chefs Recently, Peru had three presidents in one week. Congress voted to oust popular President Martin […]