In PáginaSIETE of La Paz Anahí Cazas reported that a Senate committee is reviewing the proposed creation of a fund to protect Bolivia’s “World Heritage” sites. 

  La Tribuna of Tegucigalpa wrote that representatives of the National Chamber of Tourism of Honduras (CANATURH) believe that between January and March 2014 the country will receive around 13,000 tourists from Canada, the U.S., and Europe,

DominicanToday of Santo Domingo reported that the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism (MITUR) and the 2013 NBA Championship team, the Miami HEAT, are pleased to announce their 2013/2014 partnership.  

The citadel of Chan Chan in the Peruvian region of La Libertad is recognized as one of the most impressive sites in the New World, observed La República of Lima. 

So noted Alberto José Patino Mojica in El Tiempo of Bogotá.  Although it sounds like a cliché, Pijao, a town of 6,600 inhabitants located in the department of Quindio in the Central Cordillera, “seems frozen in time.” 

According to Dom Phillips in Folha de São Paulo “the continent-sized country also has a vast interior, with forests, mountain ranges (serras) and plateaux (chapadas) of at times staggering beauty.

Mónica Mateos-Vega reported in La Jornada of Mexico City that poet, journalist, and diplomat Hugo Gutiérrez Vega was awarded the Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes 2013 for Literature.  

In Semana Magazine of Bogotá Alberto Najar reported that Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska was awarded the 2013 Cervantes Prize, the highest honor in Spanish letters. 

So noted Estado de São Paulo.  After four consecutive years of decline, deforestation in the Amazon is increasing once again.  

Inside Costa Rica of San José reported that Nicaragua described Costa Rica’s construction of a road on its border parallel to the Rio San Juan as an “environmental nightmare”