Marcela Ojeda reported in El Financiero of Mexico City that the Chief of the Tax Administration Service (SAT), Aristóteles Núñez, said that despite “a lot of misinformation,” the middle classes will not be affected by tax reform. 

La República of Lima interviewed Arnoldo Reyes of PayPal, the global leader in electronic payments, who travels to Peru regularly. 

Correio Braziliense of Brasília remarked on the rise and fall of fortunes carved out by business celebrities who were experts at leveraging their outsized lifestyles.  Many of their endeavors “now lie as muddled shipwrecks and don’t seem so glamorous anymore.” 

In El Espectador of Bogotá Edwin Bohórquez spoke with Luis Alberto Moreno, the president of the Inter-American Development Bank who says that “farming today should not be like it was for our great-grandparents.” 

La Jornada of Mexico City editorialized that as the nation debates President Enrique Peña Nieto’s so-called energy reform, a move that would increase the role of private companies in Mexico’s petroleum industry,

El Comercio of Quito boasted that Ecuador is among the least expensive tourist destinations in the world.  According to china.org.cn, it is among the 10 cheapest.  In first place is India, where “ the daily expenditure of the country is the lowest of world.” 

So observed Natalia Ramos in PáginaSIETE of La Paz.  Nora Bayerman, one of the venders in the central tourist area of ​​La Paz, says that business is not what it was.

In Prensa Libre of Guatemala City Genner Guzmán told of the upcoming “día del descuentazo,” or “discount day,” in which more than three thousand merchants will gather to offer shoppers significant markdowns on

El Universal of Mexico City observed that while Hollywood uses many different places to tell its stories, Mexico seems to mostly provide backdrops for its darker tales. 

Folha de São Paula told of an exhibit called “A Better Place” at the Matilha Cultural Center in central São Paulo featuring of the work of tattoo artists from many nations.