Orsetta Bellani spoke with Cáceres in Latinamerican Press of Lima.  The indigenous leader argued that while 80% of crimes go unpunished in Honduras, social movements there are criminalized and prosecuted.

El Espectador of Bogotá reported that Alexander Fabián Huamán, alias “Héctor,” head of the Huallaga Regional Committee of the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, was captured in the Upper Huallaga Valley,

In La Jornada of Mexico City Fernando Camacho Servin noted that disappearances in Mexico have continued to occur

El Espectador of Bogotá reported that in Chile in 2013 there was still torture as well as practices promoting illegitimate institutional abuse,

José Meléndez wrote in El Tiempo of Bogotá about the group there that is “preparing for a possible armed conflict with Nicaragua.” 

La Jornada of Mexico City editorialized about what seems to be “a new dirty war” in the state of Guerrero. 

Carmen Herrera wrote in Latinamerican Press of Lima that the 2013 Global Gender Gap Report, released Oct. 25 by the World Economic Forum (WEF), ranked Nicaragua 10th in the world in gender equality — a move that the women´s movement in the country criticized,

In La Jornada of Mexico City Immanuel Wallerstein conjectured that the civil war in Colombia is coming to an end. 

La Jornada of Mexico City reported that at least 670 journalists were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean in the past 20 years, according to a report on the first day of the International Forum on Impunity, held in La Paz, Bolivia. 

In PáginaSIETE of La Paz Álvaro Valero observed that between 2000 and 2010 the rate of homicides in Latin America grew 11%, while in most regions of the world murder rates declined or stabilized.