Nasere Habed López argued in El Nuevo Diario of Managua that “hedonism is a pervasive feature” of Nicaraguan youth culture today in a way that it was not in “previous generations.” 

Emir Sader argued in Página/12 of Buenos Aires that the wave of progressive governments in Latin America has made significant strides “to turn the page on neoliberalism.” 

In PáginaSIETE of La Paz Eduardo Gudynas wrote of the “divorce” between left and liberalism in Latin America.  According Gudynas, “progressivism” was “born from the womb of the left” but has “consolidated its own identity, and would seem to be taking another direction.”

In Página/12 of Buenos Aires Mempo Giardinelli responded to The New York Times columnist Roger Cohen’s piece titled “Cry for me Argentina.” 

Folha de São Paulo editorialized that while President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity had recovered somewhat since the protests of June 2013, the nation still feels a certain malaise, with a vague sense that all is not going well.  

In El Nacional of Caracas Demetrio Boersner argued that when “some progressives and democratic intellectuals” analyze problems in Europe or North America they are measured, reasonable democrats.  But when they “focus on the dynamics of developing countries, they become apologists for Stalinism or other authoritarian formulas.” 

In BNamericas of Santiago David Roberts pointed to the “irony of communist-run Cuba holding the presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Nations (Celac), and staging the second annual summit of the group in Havana.”   

Jorge Fernández Menéndez wrote in Excélsior of Mexico City that the “the legalization of marijuana,” such as the legislature of the Mexican federal district aspires to, is “ill-conceived” and will “make more problems than solutions.” 

An editorial  of Prensa Libre of Guatemala City recommended that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro take note of “the famous slogan of a U.S. presidential campaign,” and remember that “the main issue is the economy.”  

ÚltimaHora of Asunción reflected on Paraguayan democracy on its “25th birthday,” by noting that it “shows signs of adulthood, but still drags along its vices acquired in an eventful childhood and adolescence, and even its inherited traumas of the long dictatorship which was its predecessor.”  And although Paraguay is a largely Christian country, one can