El Espectador of Bogotá wrote that the CBERS -3, the satellite that China and Brazil recently launched, has cameras for remote monitoring that can significantly improve observation of the deforestation process in the Amazon. 

In Colombia Reports of Medellín Andrew Wight reported that the European Union has pledged $410,000 for a biodiversity project promoting a Colombian “natural treasure.” 

Inside Costa Rica of San José wrote that the peccary, a pig-like mammal known locally as a “chancho de monte,” is a species that lives in Costa Rica and which,

Maria López Conde wrote in The Rio Times of Rio de Janeiro of torrential rains that have “wreaked havoc in the city and state of Rio de Janeiro, flooding streets, metro stations and closing airports.

Javier Salinas Cesareo wrote in La Jornada of Mexico City that at least 30 illegal homes have been demolished in the ecological reserve of the Sierra de Guadalupe, municipality of Ecatepec, Mexico State. 

La Republica of Lima reported that President Ollanta Humala of Peru wants to be able to say, and keep saying, that “surf’s up.”  

El Heraldo of Tegucigalpa reported that at least 44 Cubans were arrested by Honduran authorities in the department of Colón, Honduras on the Caribbean. 

So says Santiago G. Estrella in El Comercio of Quito.  At least 200 young people gathered for two days in Quito to pass judgment on imperialism for its crimes against humanity.  

Buenos Aires Herald.  2013 was supposed to finally be the year. After 31 months of talks, it was supposed to mark the time when the European Union and the Mercosur bloc were going to present their respective offers for a free trade deal all sides claim to want. 

PáginaSIETE of La Paz noted that Bolivia’s vice president Alvaro García Linera said that the outlet to the Pacific Ocean from his country is a matter of  “historical justice.”