Francisca Montecinos noted in La Tercera of Santiago that at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival the Chilean film “Matar a un hombre” (“To Kill a Man”) ​​won the Jury Prize for Best drama performed outside the United States. 

Óscar Collazos wrote in El Tiempo of Bogotá,  that as contemporary art has pulled away from the people, that is, has lost the understanding and sympathy of a large number of people, many “empirical” artists have been “expelled” from the new trends and taken refuge in what has been called the “folk art.” 

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.