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November 24, 2020

Too Many Chefs

NEED TO KNOW PERU [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7d13971f-19d8-4bc2-ac9e-119d2f349be4.png"] Too Many Chefs Recently, Peru had three presidents in one week. Congress voted to oust popular President Martin Vizcarra on Nov. 9 on corruption charges that he denies. Vizcarra's replacement, Interim President Manuel Merino, resigned after mass protests against what many Peruvians saw as...

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November 23, 2020

Sharing the Wealth

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Sharing the Wealth People around the world are afraid to leave home because of the coronavirus. The airline industry is on the brink of bankruptcy. Millions facing dire economic circumstances are cutting back on their spending, hurting businesses around the world. It seems then...

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November 13, 2020

Self-Dealing, Inc.

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Self-Dealing, Inc. One of the more unusual moments from the American presidential campaign trail was the New York Times’ report on President Donald Trump’s unreleased taxes. The report explained that Trump had “…struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions...

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November 09, 2020

An Infected Vote

NEED TO KNOW BELIZE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/53f1bee4-487a-4d6c-8698-47b99bbdc63a.png"] An Infected Vote The outgoing prime minister of Belize, Dean Barrow, will not allow voters with Covid-19 to vote in the Central American country’s parliamentary elections on Nov. 11. Stopping the spread of the coronavirus is obviously a positive goal. But Barrow gave...

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November 04, 2020

Use It or Lose It

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Use It or Lose It In the US, political parties spend millions to get out the vote. Around the world, political rivals accuse each other of attempting to suppress or rig the vote. Authoritarian democracies make voting a non-choice for citizens. Non-democracies don’t...

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November 03, 2020

No Going Back

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] No Going Back Opinion polls currently – and with much hedging – forecast that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden will win the Nov. 3 presidential election. If they are correct, Biden has said that one of his first foreign policy actions will be...

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November 02, 2020

An International Election

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] An International Election The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has sent observers to monitor the US presidential elections on Tuesday, Nov. 3. OSCE officials said they would look into concerns about the Postal Service, the coronavirus and public trust in the...

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October 30, 2020

The Ballots Heard ‘Round the World

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] The Ballots Heard 'Round the World It should come as no surprise to Americans that they are not the only ones with a vested interest in who becomes president of the US – most of the world is closely following the US elections. While...

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October 22, 2020

Out with the Old

NEED TO KNOW CHILE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/baed026e-8c02-42fc-8c27-383b8bf87a6c.png"] Out with the Old Recently, an officer in Chile’s national police force, the Carabineros, was caught on video throwing an unidentified 16-year-old over a bridge. The teen is now in the hospital recovering from the 23-foot drop. During the days of Augusto Pinochet, the...

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October 15, 2020

The Do-Over

NEED TO KNOW BOLIVIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8ed01a1e-5cea-4b63-b4c0-c3727f7de51c.png"] The Do-Over The US allegedly backed a military coup against the leftwing government of ex-president Evo Morales in Bolivia late last year. If that is the case, the coup’s impact doesn't appear to be lasting. The former senator who became interim president after Morales...

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September 28, 2020

Evil, and Shame

NEED TO KNOW MEXICO [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/fcd100e2-d1bb-4cd7-b9f4-53a07a70e41c.png"] Evil, and Shame Lucía vowed to never give up, determined to find the remains of her son, who disappeared in 2013 in Veracruz, Mexico, vanishing like so many Mexicans over the past six years. This mother, however, is now a founding member of Colectivo...

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September 24, 2020

Out There

NEED TO KNOW FALKLAND ISLANDS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9b4ece37-5299-4ae1-b568-ca8dde45abc5.png"] Out There The 10-week-long war over the Falkland Island, which Argentines refer to as the Malvinas Islands, claimed around 900 casualties. Argentina’s junta collapsed after they lost the war. Some say conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had proved her grace under pressure. Dreams...

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September 17, 2020

Highs and Lies

NEED TO KNOW GUATEMALA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/db73a011-021f-466b-9b89-77add155facc.png"] Highs and Lies In the dead of night, small planes fly low over the tropical jungles, Mayan ruins, ranches and villages of Central America. Landing and taking off from makeshift airstrips, they can carry $100 million worth of cocaine. For many years, they stuck...

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September 15, 2020

The Magic Bullet

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/97627ae9-28af-4953-8b2d-b63f97cce5bc.png"] The Magic Bullet Americans aren’t the only ones debating how to put an end to police brutality. Folks in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa have taken to the streets recently to protests against police violence, extrajudicial killings and the unfair application of the law,...

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September 10, 2020

Plagues of Fire and Pestilence

NEED TO KNOW BRAZIL [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b4df2610-e790-44f6-bec1-f859c705ae8b.png"] Plagues of Fire and Pestilence The Amazon is burning again. For the second year in a row, the Guardian reported, massive fires have swept through the rainforest often called the lungs of the Earth. Critics say populist President Jair Bolsonaro is to blame. They...

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September 02, 2020

Not Over

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/97627ae9-28af-4953-8b2d-b63f97cce5bc.png"] Not Over If US Democratic nominee Joe Biden becomes president in January, he probably will have priorities that supersede the trade wars President Donald Trump initiated while in office, reported Politico. Since the European Union and China have launched responses in those conflicts,...

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August 18, 2020

Pageantry and Plague

NEED TO KNOW NICARAGUA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b1f74445-4296-4463-949d-e92d66c3e3b1.png"] Pageantry and Plague Nicaragua recently held its national beauty pageant online. “We had trials and classes through Zoom, supervised by me from home,” Karen Celebertti, who has run the event for years, told the Associated Press in an interview. “The girls had a speech...

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August 13, 2020

The Silence in the Absence

NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/97627ae9-28af-4953-8b2d-b63f97cce5bc.png"] The Silence in the Absence Romans love to complain about loud, crass, un-stylish American tourists who crowd their ancient city’s cobblestone streets in normal times. But dwellers of the Eternal City are finding themselves yearning for those visitors now that their economy is...

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August 10, 2020

Waves Ahead

Dear Readers, For those of you interested in accessing the Covid-19 update, you can find it at the end of this edition of DailyChatter. The DailyChatter Team NEED TO KNOW WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/97627ae9-28af-4953-8b2d-b63f97cce5bc.png"] Waves Ahead White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Deborah Birx recently told CNN that the US was...

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August 05, 2020

The Tiger’s Stripes

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,771,236 (+1.14%) Brazil: 2,801,921 (+1.88%) India: 1,908,254 (+2.83%) Russia: 859,762 (+0.60%) South Africa: 521,318 (+0.86%) Mexico: 449,961 (+1.39%) Peru:...

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