María López Conde wrote in The Rio Times of Rio de Janeiro that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff defended her government’s public safety policies across the nation in an interview with two radio stations amid growing national and international outrage over violence at Brazil’s overcrowded prisons. 

Santiago Del Carril observed in the Buenos Aires Herald that “a penchant to analyze reality” means that Argentina ranks seventh in the world in think-tanks, and first in the region. 

Carin Steen wrote in Honduras Weekly of Tegucigalpa about “Teresa’s Story.”  Steen tells the story: “This is about a family that I’ve known for years, living in a small village near Copán Ruinas. The oldest kids were some of the first students I ever taught and the rest of the brothers and sisters steadily followed

In PáginaSIETE of La Paz Sergio Mendoza reported that approximately 15% of buildings in the south of La Paz have no approved plans. 

PáginaSIETE of La Paz reported that the lack of paper still threatens daily newspapers in Venezuela.  While many blame the economic crisis, others see political causes.  The Caracas daily El Nacional printed a front page letter to President Nicolás Maduro complaining of the situation. 

Semana Magazine of Bogotá noted that Cuban authorities have lifted the ban on the ability of citizens to rent housing and commercial real estate, but also noted that the prices will be out of reach for most Cubans. 

Semana Magazine of Bogotá reported that while thousands of young black people are taking to the luxury malls of Brazil, they are finding themselves shut out, or harassed by police and private security.  “Brazil often purports to be the perfect multicultural society where whites, blacks, Indians, mestizos, and Asians live together in a harmonious union.

La Nación of Asunción reported that to confront the “always present problem of landlessness and the consequent crisis generated in the countryside by constant clashes between peasants and landowners,” several MPs have submitted a draft law on agricultural society. 

ListínDiario of Santo Domingo lamented that 40% of women in the DR who experience violence eventually abandon the legal process.  District Attorney Yeni Berenice Reinoso says that women often end complaints and return to an abusive husband for “psycho-social” reasons, but more often than not for economic reasons. 

In Latinamerica Press of Lima Felivia Mejía wrote of the “alarming reality” of femicide in the Dominican Republic.