Buenos Aires Herald reported that Juan Gelman, one of Argentina’s best known poets and certainly one of the most loved by readers, died in Mexico City where he lived after going into exile just before the last military dictatorship seized power in 1976.  

El Universal of Mexico City noted that twenty-eight years after his death, the author of Pedro Páramo and The Burning Plain was commemorated as one of the leaders of Mexican literature. 

La Jornada of Mexico City noted that Frida and Diego had a good run in Paris. 

Semana Magazine of Bogotá wrote that about 170 archaeologists and workers have been digging over the last year for artefacts left by Colombia’s Herrera culture, dating from 900 BCE, located in the municipality of Soacha, south of Bogotá. 

According to Robert Solomón in El Faro Magazine of San Salvador, “it must be said” that in El Salvador there is now “high energy” in the theatrical realm. 

Ariel Espinoza wrote in ABCColor of Asunción about Pedro Martínez and his contribution to Paraguayan music and folklore. 

Mónica Mateos-Vega reported in La Jornada of Mexico City that poet, journalist, and diplomat Hugo Gutiérrez Vega was awarded the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes 2013 for Literature.  

In Semana Magazine of Bogotá Alberto Najar reported that Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska was awarded the 2013 Cervantes Prize, the highest honor in Spanish letters. 

El Universal of Mexico City observed that while Hollywood uses many different places to tell its stories, Mexico seems to mostly provide backdrops for its darker tales. 

Folha de São Paula told of an exhibit called “A Better Place” at the Matilha Cultural Center in central São Paulo featuring of the work of tattoo artists from many nations.