Eduardo Sarmiento argued in El Espectador of Bogotá that the big economic picture has changed a lot in the last ten years. On the one hand are the countries of the Pacific Alliance and on the other the Southern Cone countries and their allies, specifically Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia.

Ruy Castro observed in Folha de São Paulo that the publication of newspapers and magazines online has opened an important channel of communication with readers.

Luis I. Sandoval, in El Espectador of Bogotá, wanted to be “direct and frank…but also purposeful.”   “What do we see looking at Europe from the outside?  We see a Europe that is languishing, a collapsed Europe, a Europe that is self-absorbed and self-satisfied to some extent, listless and tired.”  Yes, these are “very ugly and

El Telégrafo of Guayaquil explored the case of Ecuador in an editorial. 

Juan Manuel López Caballero in Dinero Magazine of Bogotá remembered that at one point in his term, the then President of Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen, wondered whether Colombia would be falling into the category of “non-viable countries.” 

In El Universal of Mexico City Alberto Aziz Nassif argued that in Mexico “power vacuums are filled by the worst special interests.” 

Mario Fuentes Destarac observed in El Periódico of Guatemala City that “shortness of breath is the pressing, urgent feeling of losing the ability to inhale,” and that there are parallels between the breathlessness of an individual and the severe dysfunction afflicting Guatemalan democracy. 

Kljkoj Máximo Ba Tiul argued in Prensa Libre of Guatemala City that in the late twentieth century many Latin Americans wanted to reform their education systems, transforming both their content and their methodology,

Jesús Zambrano Grijalva wrote in El Universal of Mexico City that the decision by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto to push energy reform through privatization,

Ricardo Montezuma insisted in El Tiempo of Bogotá that any national policy to control drinking and driving must also address consumption and advertising.