Inside Costa Rica of San José reported that Costa Rica’s black population is hindered by less education and professional employment. 

El Comercio of Lima reported that President Ollanta Humala defended the “Warma Qali” food program for children after new complaints about its safety. 

La Jornada of Mexico City noted that according to reports from the Federal Ministry of Health, a recent surge in cholera cases has been detected

El Heraldo of Tegucigalpa reported that Costa Rica is the Central American country which invests the most in childhood and adolescence, while Nicaragua spends the least,

La Nación of Asunción noted that a recent report finds that the percentage of Paraguayans who would tolerate an authoritarian regime has increased

PáginaSIETE of La Paz chronicled how the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, Muhammad Yunus, visited Bolivia to hold meetings with President Evo Morales

President Mauricio Funes (as Commander in Chief of the Salvadoran Armed Forces) recently ordered the army to stop referring to officers who committed human rights violations during the Salvadoran Civil War as “heroes.”  

Panamá América of Panama City lamented that no Spanish or Latin American educational institution was among the hundred top ranking of world universities by the British magazine Times Higher Education. 

The Rio Times noted that while Brazil’s nationwide protests of June and July have subsided, they have been replaced by a number of “cause-driven” actions that continue to generate violent clashes between police and protesters in mobilizations that have ranged from hundreds to tens of thousands of participants. 

Semana Magazine of Bogotá remarked on “the indifference of congress” toward President Juan Manuel Santos’ draft health care reform.