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. 

MercoPress of Montevideo reported the collapse of Brazilian jails, where “one convict is slain every two days.” 

The Buenos Aires Herald noted that “thousands of Cuban state taxi drivers will soon be leasing their vehicles and working on their own as part of a reorganization of the country’s taxi service aimed at improving efficiency.”  

Inside Costa Rica of San José reported that police officers of the Fuerza Pública in Liberia, Guanacaste carried out the eviction of some 50 families consisting of some 200 people