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. 

Gustavo Posada Veloza wrote in El Telégrafo of Guayaquil of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ increased popularity after the agreement with the FARC, and his decision to seek reelection. 

In mid November, 2013 Venezuela’s congress voted to give President Nicolás Maduro the power to legislate by decree for the next 12 months. 

In El Tiempo of Bogotá Daniel Samper Pizano argued that the announcement by President Juan Manuel Santos that he will seek reelection “puts official robes on a situation that was wearing a sweatshirt.” 

Juan Pablo Proal argued in Proceso Magazine of Mexico City that President Enrique Peña  Nieto has not lived up to his own rhetoric. 

Sadio Garavini Di Durno lamented in Prensa Libre of Guatemala City that after 15 years of the highest sustained oil revenues in its history, Venezuela is experiencing

El País of Montevideo editorialized that “we have reached such a level of savagery in our society that nothing surprises.” 

Honduras held general elections on November 24, 2013 that many observers say reflected the poor state of Honduran democracy since the 2009 coup and ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. 

La Jornada of Mexico City reported that hundreds of Venezuelans gathered outside Daka Electronics stores to buy televisions, refrigerators, irons, blenders and other appliances, after President Nicolás Maduro announced that he had ordered the chain to sell all items at “fair prices.”

El Espectador of Bogotá noted that according to a study by researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia, 4% of the world population suffers from depression.