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August 11, 2021

A Page, Borrowed

NEED TO KNOW BRAZIL [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b4df2610-e790-44f6-bec1-f859c705ae8b.png"] A Page, Borrowed Protesters staged events throughout Brazil recently after far-right populist President Jair Bolsonaro, citing baseless claims of fraud, suggested he might need to postpone elections next year due to potential vote-rigging in the country’s electoral system. His comments stoked fears that he...

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August 03, 2021

Hats, White and Black

NEED TO KNOW PERU [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7d13971f-19d8-4bc2-ac9e-119d2f349be4.png"] Hats, White and Black Peruvians living in the Andean town of Niño Jesús de Huarapite feel as if nobody in the capital of Lima is in their corner. Many remember how Peruvian troops and US-trained counterterrorism forces perpetrated a massacre in the town...

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July 26, 2021

Patria y vida

NEED TO KNOW CUBA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/934b8716-56c1-487d-ba72-11a855fa10c6.png"] Patria y vida Food shortages and price spikes were the initial motivations for the anti-government demonstrations now rocking Cuba. Gross national product declined a whopping 11 percent in the past year as the tourism industry plunged due to the coronavirus pandemic. But now many...

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July 21, 2021

The Heat’s On

NEED TO KNOW CANADA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7ee49a6-d768-4bd1-93d6-b44b086c3c21.png"] The Heat's On Cherries roasting on trees, crops baking in fields, mussels being boiled alive in the ocean – these are some of the casualties – alongside humans and their villages – of a record-setting wildfire season in the wake of a record-setting...

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July 19, 2021

The Plot to Nowhere

NEED TO KNOW HAITI [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/49e3c059-ec02-49d2-b8d4-2a7e10c83ff3.png"] The Plot to Nowhere The alleged conspirators who plotted the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse met repeatedly in Florida and the Dominican Republic in the months before the July 7 killing. Haitian authorities have specifically targeted Haitian-American doctor and pastor Christian Emmanuel Sanon,...

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July 07, 2021

Cats and Dogs

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Cats and Dogs The experiences of our cats and dogs are windows into how humans suffered and endured during the coronavirus pandemic. Cats had taken over an island near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after their owners abandoned them due to coronavirus-related deaths or impoverishment,...

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July 05, 2021

‘Just Little Savages’

NEED TO KNOW CANADA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7ee49a6-d768-4bd1-93d6-b44b086c3c21.png"] 'Just Little Savages' Canadian First Nation leaders found the remains of more than 200 former students – all Indigenous – at a school in British Columbia. A month later, they found another 200. And then there were those 750 unmarked graves near Marieval...

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June 29, 2021

No Quarter

NEED TO KNOW NICARAGUA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b1f74445-4296-4463-949d-e92d66c3e3b1.png"] No Quarter Nicaraguan intellectual Emilio Álvarez Montalván once described his fellow citizens as “outgoing, imaginative, hard-working, and compassionate" to Stephen Kinzer, a Boston Globe columnist and senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He also noted how...

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June 21, 2021

A Taxing Issue

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] A Taxing Issue At their recent meeting in Britain, leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations accepted an American proposal to impose a minimum global corporate tax. The new levy would “address the tax challenges arising from globalization and the digitalization of...

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June 14, 2021

Borderlines

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Borderlines Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei recently blamed the US for attracting migrants seeking a haven from violence and fleeing poverty. During a CBS News interview before American Vice President Kamala Harris' recent visit to the Central American country, Giammattei suggested the new US...

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June 10, 2021

Taxing the Air

NEED TO KNOW CANADA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7ee49a6-d768-4bd1-93d6-b44b086c3c21.png"] Taxing the Air The Canadian Supreme Court this year issued an important decision with worldwide implications when its justices approved Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to tax carbon emissions. "Climate change is real,” said Chief Justice Richard Wagner, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....

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June 03, 2021

Transformation on the Ballot

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/fcd100e2-d1bb-4cd7-b9f4-53a07a70e41c.png"] Transformation on the Ballot President Andrés Manuel López Obrador – whose nickname is AMLO – wants to transform his country. On June 6, his constituents will have a chance in crucial midterm elections to have their say on whether he can. As the Americas...

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May 28, 2021

The Taxman Cometh

NEED TO KNOW CAYMAN ISLANDS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ac13da7b-8a12-21ad-d010-c12c0a423ca0.png"] The Taxman Cometh The European Union removed the Cayman Islands from its so-called tax haven blacklist late last year. The move made it easier for investors to move money through the jurisdiction, wrote the Devpolicy Blog, a publication of the Australian National...

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May 26, 2021

Losing the Future

NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AMERICA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/59fbe6be-49eb-3207-4c89-ea2ca4043f2a.png"] Losing the Future So many players on Argentina’s powerhouse soccer team River Plate were sick with Covid-19 that they needed to put midfielder Enzo Pérez into a game as a goalkeeper. River Plate still defeated Independiente Santa Fe, a Colombian team, in the Copa...

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May 19, 2021

Taxes, and Everything

NEED TO KNOW COLOMBIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/80e582e1-1ef0-4fb5-a86a-699a8cf7cddf.png"] Taxes, and Everything At first, they took to the streets to protest against a tax plan they called unfair because it sought to make up for lost revenues during the pandemic on the backs of working people rather than the affluent. Now protesters in...

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May 11, 2021

New Leader, Old Torch

NEED TO KNOW CUBA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/934b8716-56c1-487d-ba72-11a855fa10c6.png"] New Leader, Old Torch It was the end of an era when Raúl Castro resigned as chief of the Cuban Communist Party last month. Castro and his late brother, Fidel, had ruled the island since the 1959 revolution. “Nothing, nothing, nothing is forcing me...

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May 05, 2021

Politics and Plague

NEED TO KNOW CANADA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7ee49a6-d768-4bd1-93d6-b44b086c3c21.png"] Politics and Plague The Canadian military recently deployed to Ontario amid a scary surge of the coronavirus that has seen the rate of infections surpass that of the US for the first time. The move came after Ontario Premier Doug Ford issued new...

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April 22, 2021

Problem Child

NEED TO KNOW HAITI [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/49e3c059-ec02-49d2-b8d4-2a7e10c83ff3.png"] Problem Child Haitian Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe resigned recently. He served for around a year, wrote Al Jazeera, a period that saw a spectacular rise in murders, kidnappings and insecurity in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. In an illustrative example of the...

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April 15, 2021

A Stubborn Thorn

NEED TO KNOW BRAZIL [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b4df2610-e790-44f6-bec1-f859c705ae8b.png"] A Stubborn Thorn Lula is back. The leftist former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently received a new lease on life in politics after the country’s Supreme Court annulled his criminal convictions in March, paving the way for him to run for...

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April 14, 2021

The Little Engine That Could

NEED TO KNOW CUBA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/934b8716-56c1-487d-ba72-11a855fa10c6.png"] The Little Engine That Could Even as Cuba remains isolated from the US, it’s poised to become the center of a web of vaccination distribution throughout the rest of the world. The poor, communist-led island in the Caribbean has a whopping five vaccine candidates...

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