El Tiempo of Bogotá noted the challenges to be faced by Óscar Iván Zuluaga, the candidate chosen by former President Álvaro Uribe to represent his new party (since Uribe is constitutionally prohibited from running again). 

PáginaSIETE of La Paz reported that President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela created the “Vice Ministry for the People’s Supreme Social Happiness.” 

The Buenos Aires Herald reported that two of Brazil’s most popular opposition leaders have joined forces in an unexpected alliance that could have a big impact on next year’s election, perhaps presenting a major challenge to President Dilma Rousseff in the context of a weakening economy. 

Alejandro Gertz Manero wrote of “hurricane corruption”  in El Universal of Mexico City.  He noted the old Mexican political saying that if there is someone to blame, then any scandal can be survived. 

El Mercurio of Santiago noted that the presidential candidate of Chile’s New Majority Party, former President Michelle Bachelet, issued a call to her followers to make an effort to win the election in the first round on November 17. 

Joaquin Samayoa, in La Prensa Gráfica of San Salvador, assigned Salvadoran voters “some homework.”  The “exam will be on February 2nd” and the only question is: who should be the next president of El Salvador?

Honduras Weekly of Tegucigalpa noted President Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo’s call to Hondurans to “vote for

Buenos Aires Herald noted that “presidential hopefuls will abound after October’s midterm vote” and wonders

El Universal of Mexico City wondered whether Cuauhtemoc Cárdenas can rescue the PRD.  The founder of

In La Prensa Gráfica of San Salvador Otto Morán reported that the FMLN seeks a referendum legalizing