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. 

Emir Sader argued in Página/12 of Buenos Aires that the new century “has not been particularly favorable to the right in Latin America.” 

Luís Fernando Verissimo observed in O Globo of Rio de Janeiro that “all utopias imagined up until the present day have ended in dystopias, or at least contained a fatal defect.” 

In El Tiempo of Bogotá Daniel Samper Pizano argued that the announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos that he will seek reelection “puts official robes on a situation that was wearing a sweatshirt.”