El Heraldo of Tegucigalpa reported that Costa Rica is the Central American country which invests the most in childhood and adolescence, while Nicaragua spends the least,

La Nación of Asunción noted that a recent report finds that the percentage of Paraguayans who would tolerate an authoritarian regime has increased

PáginaSIETE of La Paz chronicled how the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, Muhammad Yunus, visited Bolivia to hold meetings with President Evo Morales

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The Rio Times noted that while Brazil’s nationwide protests of June and July have subsided, they have been replaced by a number of “cause-driven” actions that continue to generate violent clashes between police and protesters in mobilizations that have ranged from hundreds to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