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. 

Eric Nepomuceno lamented in Página/12 of Buenos Aires that in the Rio de Janeiro area, which has a population of about seven million inhabitants, just over one million people suffer

Clarín of Buenos Aires reported that the Ministry of Defense released a part of the “black lists” last kept during the dictatorship which included

As the Buenos Aires Herald recognized, the Colombian government and the FARC have reached a “fundamental agreement” on the guerrillas’ future in politics, one of the toughest issues to be addressed in peace talks in Cuba.