El Nuevo Diario of Managua says “the gamble was a success.”  Puerto Allende has become one of the largest amusement parks in Nicaragua, with numerous restaurants, receiving 94,000 visitors a month. 

Ricardo Calil in Folha de São Paulo says that “at first glance” Mariana Rondón’s new film “Pelo Malo” (“Bad Hair”) “looks like a realistic drama about daily life in a poor country seen through the eyes of a child.” 

So says Juan David Torres Duarte in El Espectador of Bogotá.  Europe and the United States have long dominated the market, but now

In El Comercio of Peru Manuel Manticorena Solís examined how the Brazilian cosmetics company Natura has worked to reforest the Amazon and offset its emissions. 

O Estado de São Paulo reported that after three years of decline, the illegal logging in Pará State is once again on the rise, increasing 151% from August 2011 to July 2012, compared to the previous period.  

In La Jornada of Mexico City Susana González observed that Mexico is one of the four Latin American countries with the most social and environmental conflicts caused by mining companies. 

According to El Espectador of Bogotá the Government of Bolivia described as “delusional” an article in the Wall Street Journal

Mercopress of Montevideo noted that the United Nations General Assembly recently elected Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to serve as non-permanent members on the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on 1 January 2014.

Miguel Braun in the Buenos Aires Herald observed that when President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recently compared Argentina to Australia, knowingly or not, she was following a well-worn path. 

La República of Lima noted that China has investment projects in Latin America totaling 26 billion U.S. dollars,