Carolina Enríquez noted in El Comercio of Quito that Ecuador sees Mexico as an investment destination.  At the moment Mexico gains more from trade and investments in Ecuador, but the latter seeks to refurbish this relationship through a new agreement that will open its larger regional neighbor to more of their products and companies. 

So argued Marcelo J. García in the Buenos Aires Herald.  He pointed out that Radio journalist Andy Kustnesoff, “who generally supports the government,” pleaded repeatedly with Economy Minister Axel Kicillof during an interview to “let us avoid the Clarín, anti-Clarín debate.” 

Fernando Camacho Servin wrote in La Jornada of Mexico City that if President Enrique Peña Nieto wants to save the country, he could start with a strong defense of human rights. 

Nasere Habed López argued in El Nuevo Diario of Managua that “hedonism is a pervasive feature” of Nicaraguan youth culture today in a way that it was not in “previous generations.” 

Emir Sader argued in Página/12 of Buenos Aires that the wave of progressive governments in Latin America has made significant strides “to turn the page on neoliberalism.” 

In The Tico Times of San José, Costa Rica, Corey Kane noted that while Latin America and the Caribbean have around 9% of the world’s population, the region accounts for more than 30% of global homicides. 

In the Buenos Aires Herald James Neilson argued that “nobody has a solution for the drug-trafficking problem.”  He noted Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman’s response to the U.S. State Department’s annual survey “of how things are going in the endless ‘war on drugs’,” which said that the drug trade is “making inroads in Argentina.  

The Buenos Aires Herald noted that in its annual Report on Human Rights the U.S. State Department has drawn attention to cases of “torture by provincial police, harsh prison conditions and gender violence,” as cause for concern in Argentina. 

In El Universal of Mexico City Karla Casillas and Valentina Pérez Botero spoke with Renato Sales Heredia, head of the National Anti-Kidnapping effort.  Sales said that the practice casts a “huge dark shadow” over Mexico. 

DominicanToday of Santo Domingo reported that the Dominican Republic’s tourism sector has recovered completely this year, as evidenced by the expected arrival of some 250,000 Germans to all regions including the south.