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February 06, 2020

From The Rubble

NEED TO KNOW HAITI [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/49e3c059-ec02-49d2-b8d4-2a7e10c83ff3.png"] From The Rubble Ten years ago this month, a powerful earthquake struck Haiti, reducing Port-au-Prince to rubble. As many as 300,000 people died and 300,000 were injured in the disaster, according to French humanitarian group ACTED. Today, the island – one of the world’s...

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January 30, 2020

An Exit from Crisis

NEED TO KNOW VENEZUELA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/f52c66cd-9299-42e6-acd8-f970f62c524b.png"] An Exit from Crisis Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido recently defied a travel ban to attend an international conference in Colombia, where he met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the BBC reported. The two men had plenty to discuss. The speaker of Venezuela’s...

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January 24, 2020

The Big Cleanup

NEED TO KNOW PERU [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/0cb92226-f5a5-4594-bdc4-dd591eeff850.png"] The Big Cleanup Peruvian police recently arrested six tourists for vandalizing Machu Picchu, the former Incan citadel that is one of the most breathtaking manmade structures in the world. One alleged vandal will go on trial while authorities expelled the other five, wrote...

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January 01, 2020

Unfinished Stories

PAST AND FUTURE WORLD [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/dce47e18-e5d0-45e9-b34c-579ae97d703b.png"] Unfinished Stories As 2019 comes to a close, and with it, a decade, we at DailyChatter are taking a look back at a few select issues and events – by no means exhaustive – that made headlines over the past decade and will...

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December 17, 2019

Carpe Diem

NEED TO KNOW COLOMBIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/41563617-7883-488c-9ea2-963c15a1df02.png"] Carpe Diem President Ivan Duque wanted Colombia to be Latin America’s Silicon Valley. He wanted filmmaking, media, music, tourism, high tech and other creative industries to replace waning revenues from oil and other unstable commodities like coffee, Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer wrote. Duque...

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December 13, 2019

Justice Unserved, Justice Denied

NEED TO KNOW SURINAME [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/0dc5167a-6d5d-4107-b0d7-77cc1ffb19d9.png"] Justice Unserved, Justice Denied Late last month, a military court in Suriname found the country’s president Desi Bouterse guilty of murdering 15 political enemies nearly four decades ago and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Bouterse was on a state visit to China...

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December 05, 2019

Mirror, Mirror

NEED TO KNOW DOMINICA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9f0ca228-13aa-4816-90bc-140a6c860a92.png"] Mirror, Mirror More than 200 people clashed with police in the Caribbean island of Dominica recently. The police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowds associated with the opposition United Workers’ Party, according to Caribbean Life, a New York-based newspaper for...

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December 03, 2019

A New, And Contested, Leaf

NEED TO KNOW BOLIVIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/a9c8ea39-bdb2-43ce-ae0a-f9b246fc2c42.png"] A New, And Contested, Leaf Bolivia is sending an ambassador to the United States for the first time in 11 years. Recently appointed by Interim President Jeanine Añez, the new envoy will oversee a thaw in Bolivian relations with the US, the BBC reported....

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November 01, 2019

You Go, Girl

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/dce47e18-e5d0-45e9-b34c-579ae97d703b.png"] You Go, Girl These young women are superheroes, but they’re not the Powerpuff Girls. They’re fighters for human rights. This summer, more than 1,000 young women between the ages 13 and 22 from 34 countries contributed their thoughts in a survey that led to...

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October 29, 2019

Enough!

NEED TO KNOW CHILE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3d56051e-ec6e-4ba2-992e-95cf1329a7fa.png"] Enough! Truckers recently joined protests in Chile, calling for an end to highway tolls. Hundreds of trucks drove slowly down a highway near Santiago, the capital, where protesters have clashed with riot police for weeks. At least 20 people have died in the civil...

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October 23, 2019

A Perfect Storm

NEED TO KNOW HAITI [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/534c9ac4-a47f-4279-a234-044a550ac18b.png"] A Perfect Storm Protests in Haiti have taken a heavy toll on the impoverished Caribbean nation in recent weeks. At least 18 people have died. Businesses have closed. Humanitarian aid workers who provide a key role in Haiti’s economy and civil society can’t do...

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October 22, 2019

30 Years of Solitude

NEED TO KNOW URUGUAY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/1a7a2fb8-b6b7-42b9-be23-8f5a08738584.png"] 30 Years of Solitude More than the presidency is at stake in Uruguay on Oct. 27. In addition to choosing between presidential candidates Daniel Martinez and upstart challenger Luis Lacalle Pou, voters will also cast ballots on a draconian set of criminal reforms. The mayor...

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October 21, 2019

Flaws and Options

NEED TO KNOW CANADA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/86dd83b3-dfbf-4c11-8b78-5721c606d3f8.png"] Flaws and Options Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has cavorted in blackface or brownface at least three times. He once sang the Jamaican folk song “Day-O” while wearing the offensive makeup. Trudeau admitted he made a mistake. But the revelations left his progressive bona...

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October 18, 2019

Street Power

NEED TO KNOW ECUADOR [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/03f19965-6736-4ba3-b162-f7c0e7cf0afe.png"] Street Power Ecuadorian protesters recently seized six police officers in the capital of Quito, paraded them on a stage as a throng cried “murderers, murderers,” and forced the officers to carry a coffin bearing the body of an activist whom they allegedly shot...

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October 16, 2019

Overstaying His Welcome

NEED TO KNOW BOLIVIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/a9c8ea39-bdb2-43ce-ae0a-f9b246fc2c42.png"] Overstaying His Welcome Rain finally extinguished the massive wildfires that burned through almost 10 million acres of the Bolivian rainforest since August, the BBC reported recently. President Evo Morales isn’t likely to receive a similar respite. Latin America’s longest-serving head of state – he...

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September 25, 2019

Burning Down the House

NEED TO KNOW THE AMAZON [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ef81c211-c0fb-4e21-a904-be4d939e55c6.png"] Burning Down the House This summer, a lot of people feared the Amazon rainforest might burn to the ground, destroying an oxygen-generating ecological treasure sometimes called the “lungs of the world.” Fears about the massive forest fires in Brazil turned out to be...

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September 24, 2019

The Bad Old Days

NEED TO KNOW ARGENTINA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/0fa8b6fd-0f1b-4593-a49c-c234f14a68af.png"] The Bad Old Days Argentine President Mauricio Macri recently visited the Shrine of Our Lord and Our Lady of the Miracle in the country’s north. Perhaps the pro-business conservative was hoping for divine intervention in late October when he seeks re-election, quipped Crux, an...

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September 06, 2019

Historic Liabilities

NEED TO KNOW GUAM [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8cf6d764-462e-449a-a643-e61b65c58c04.png"] Historic Liabilities When Walter Denton was 13 years old and growing up in the US territory of Guam, he told his mother that Father Tony Apuron had raped him. He also told another priest, but nobody believed him. “In a place that emphasizes strict obedience...

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August 30, 2019

Rats, Sewage and Humming Economies

NEED TO KNOW CHILE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3d56051e-ec6e-4ba2-992e-95cf1329a7fa.png"] Rats, Sewage and Humming Economies Free marketers have long championed the economic success of Chile. The South American country’s neo-liberal reforms in the 1980s and 1990s – cutting public benefits, lowering taxes – arguably set the stage for a renaissance that helped reduce poverty...

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August 21, 2019

Gasping For Air

NEED TO KNOW AMAZON BASIN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ef81c211-c0fb-4e21-a904-be4d939e55c6.png"] Gasping For Air Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been under fire for his stewardship of the precious Amazon Basin, the so-called “lungs of the Earth” that filter carbon out of the atmosphere and sustain a remarkably diverse ecology. Deforestation has soared under the conservative...

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