President Mauricio Funes (as Commander in Chief of the Salvadoran Armed Forces) recently ordered the army to stop referring to officers who committed human rights violations during the Salvadoran Civil War as “heroes.”  

Panamá América of Panama City lamented that no Spanish or Latin American educational institution was among the hundred top ranking of world universities by the British magazine Times Higher Education. 

The Rio Times noted that while Brazil’s nationwide protests of June and July have subsided, they have been replaced by a number of “cause-driven” actions that continue to generate violent clashes between police and protesters in mobilizations that have ranged from hundreds to tens of thousands of participants. 

Semana Magazine of Bogotá remarked on “the indifference of congress” toward President Juan Manuel Santos’ draft health care reform. 

Víctor Cáceres Encina wrote in ABCColor of Asunción that seven of Paraguay’s sixteen prisons are overcrowded, with Tacumbú Penitentiary in the worst shape, according to a recent report by the Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de Torturas.  Tacumbú is 1,605 beyond capacity, followed by the prison of Ciudad del Este, which has 692 more inmates than

Prensa Libre of Guatemala City related how a group of Guatemalan girls asked their congress to pass a law raising the minimum age for marriage to eighteen,

El Comerico of Lima reported that despite the priority that the government of Ollanta Humala has given the concept of social inclusion, Perú dropped three positions and placed seventh in Latin America according to the Social Inclusion Index 2013 of Americas Quarterly magazine. 

El Siglo of Panama City reported that passengers waiting for the bus in the 24 of December township often have to do it standing in raw sewage.

In Proceso Magazine Sabina Berman asked “what do the teachers want?”  This was something neither the

Isabel Becerril disclosed in El Financiero of Mexico City that in Mexico “informal” employees earn 40%