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August 30, 2024

Tech and Tradition

[announcement] NEED TO KNOW Tech and Tradition PARAGUAY [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/291fcd24-256f-0205-0aa7-99c26470231c.png"] Cryptocurrency miners whose servers generate their digital product have flocked to Paraguay to take advantage of the landlocked South American country’s low taxes and cheap electricity. But as power shortages continue to plague the capital of Asunción, many of these crypto...

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August 19, 2024

Ganamos

NEED TO KNOW Ganamos VENEZUELA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d79e9c71-a431-5182-dcdd-2f3c65026880.png"] Tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets around the world over the weekend, demanding that authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro recognize the results of last month’s election they say he lost. In the capital Caracas and other cities across Venezuela, in the...

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August 16, 2024

Getting Rich, Right

[announcement] NEED TO KNOW Getting Rich, Right GUYANA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e90aa670-d4c1-59cf-7f80-e9a728dcecc3.png"] Past efforts at reforming the constitution of Guyana have yielded little change. Now, however, as the small South American nation prepares to dole out the benefits from new oil drilling, advocates say the recently empaneled Constitution Reform Commission must create a...

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July 29, 2024

Port of Call

NEED TO KNOW Port of Call LATIN AMERICA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/4e55dce7-9684-6d7d-8212-42e469c7fa1f.png"] American Gen. Laura Richardson, who oversees US military operations in Latin America, recently told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that the US needs a new approach to counter Russian and Chinese – especially Chinese – influence in the...

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July 26, 2024

The Three-legged Stool

[announcement] NEED TO KNOW The Three-legged Stool VENEZUELA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d79e9c71-a431-5182-dcdd-2f3c65026880.png"] Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is running for reelection for a third term on July 28. His strategy includes appearing on the ballot 13 times as the endorsed candidate of different political parties. His main rival, Edmundo González Urrutia, meanwhile, appears...

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July 23, 2024

When the Waters Come

NEED TO KNOW When the Waters Come LATIN AMERICA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/4e55dce7-9684-6d7d-8212-42e469c7fa1f.png"] Climate change allegedly has claimed many victims. Temperatures as high as 117 degrees Fahrenheit were recently causing fatal heat strokes in Pakistan. The South Asian country is on track to warm by almost nine degrees Fahrenheit by the 2090s...

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July 19, 2024

The Pot Bubbles Over

[announcement] NEED TO KNOW The Pot Bubbles Over WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] The recent assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, who is running again for the country’s top leadership post, is just the latest example of how the stew of political violence simmering throughout the world for years is...

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July 11, 2024

Succession

NEED TO KNOW Succession BOLIVIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8ed01a1e-5cea-4b63-b4c0-c3727f7de51c.png"] Bolivian President Luis Arce recently told the Associated Press that his mountainous South American country is not struggling in an economic crisis. Many Bolivians and most economists would disagree. Commercial activity in the capital of La Paz ground to a halt recently, for...

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July 03, 2024

A Declaration of War

NEED TO KNOW A Declaration of War ECUADOR [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7dbfcec9-d17b-43ce-97b7-0ce48bb12d1f.png"] Ecuadoran prosecutors recently asked the South American country’s highest court to convict Carlos Angulo, the leader of the drug-trafficking Los Lobos gang, and his associate, Laura Castillo, of hiring hit men on motorcycles to kill presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio...

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June 17, 2024

Just Say No

NEED TO KNOW Just Say No CANADA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7ee49a6-d768-4bd1-93d6-b44b086c3c21.png"] Two years ago, officials in British Columbia decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs like cocaine, fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamines to end the stigma that often keeps addicts from seeking help. “Addiction is a health issue, not a criminal one,”...

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May 31, 2024

Into the Fire

[announcement] NEED TO KNOW Into the Fire MEXICO [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/fcd100e2-d1bb-4cd7-b9f4-53a07a70e41c.png"] At least nine people died and around 50 more were injured when a stage collapsed in northern Mexico while presidential candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez was addressing supporters. Máynez of the center-left Citizen Movement was uninjured, the BBC reported. But the...

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May 23, 2024

Hearing the People

NEED TO KNOW Hearing the People CHILE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/baed026e-8c02-42fc-8c27-383b8bf87a6c.png"] Chilean truckers staged protests in the mining region near the capital of Santiago recently. The drivers demanded that the government of leftist President Gabriel Boric take action to reduce violent crime in the country. Murder rates decreased slightly last year, but...

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May 17, 2024

An Eye on the Fence

[announcement] NEED TO KNOW An Eye on the Fence DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ae32d602-c1f9-4efc-a9cc-527c8df8f863.png"] When President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic assumed office in 2020, the Caribbean country’s economy had contracted 7 percent amid the coronavirus pandemic. In the succeeding three years, a tourism wave propelled economic growth increases of...

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May 07, 2024

Coups and Crowing

NEED TO KNOW Coups and Crowing BRAZIL [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/f7cee1e0-dcb8-68eb-6ed9-13e370771cbb.png"] Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes conducted a five-year investigation into so-called “digital militias” who support former right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. As part of that probe, the judge banned 150 accounts on X, the social media app formerly known...

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May 02, 2024

Mining Discontent

NEED TO KNOW Mining Discontent PANAMA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/337297fc-0711-4678-8ee9-a8aa69435261.png"] Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals is waiting for the results of Panama’s presidential election on May 5 before deciding what to do with the shuttered Cobre Panama copper mine. As the Canadian Press reported, First Quantum Minerals closed the mine in...

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April 08, 2024

No Occupancy

NEED TO KNOW No Occupancy PERU [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7d13971f-19d8-4bc2-ac9e-119d2f349be4.png"] Many Peruvians lost respect for Dina Boluarte when she campaigned as left-wing President Pedro Castillo’s running mate, but became a business-friendly conservative when right-wing Peruvian lawmakers removed Castillo from office in 2022, elevating Vice President Boluarte to the South American country’s...

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April 05, 2024

Walking Sideways

[announcement] NEED TO KNOW Walking Sideways HONDURAS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/5e2a67ee-c113-425a-b7dc-9cb08a72f95e.png"] A federal court recently convicted former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández of conspiring to traffic cocaine to the US, as well as on two weapons charges. When he is sentenced in late June, he will face 40 years to life in...

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March 25, 2024

Refusing to Collapse

NEED TO KNOW Refusing to Collapse VENEZUELA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/f52c66cd-9299-42e6-acd8-f970f62c524b.png"] President Nicolás Maduro seems likely to breeze through Venezuela’s July 28 general election. He recently won the nomination of his political party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, with little or no opposition, reported the Associated Press. He also faces no...

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March 20, 2024

The Dream

NEED TO KNOW The Dream COLOMBIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/80e582e1-1ef0-4fb5-a86a-699a8cf7cddf.png"] The first-ever leftwing president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, 63, promised to make his country into a more equal society when he won office two years ago. Now the former guerrilla fighter and mayor of the capital of Bogota is struggling to...

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February 29, 2024

The Ghosts of the Sea

NEED TO KNOW The Ghosts of the Sea TRINIDAD & TOBAGO [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c2a34d96-e7b1-4efc-8d11-9d5fe05a8be2.png"] A bag containing $75,000 worth of cocaine recently washed up on the shore at Cove Estate on Tobago, one of the islands that comprise the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean Sea. Police have...

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