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

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