La Jornada of Mexico City noted that according to reports from the Federal Ministry of Health, a recent surge in cholera cases has been detected

El Heraldo of Tegucigalpa reported that Costa Rica is the Central American country which invests the most in childhood and adolescence, while Nicaragua spends the least,

La Nación of Asunción noted that a recent report finds that the percentage of Paraguayans who would tolerate an authoritarian regime has increased

PáginaSIETE of La Paz chronicled how the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, Muhammad Yunus, visited Bolivia to hold meetings with President Evo Morales

President Mauricio Funes (as Commander in Chief of the Salvadoran Armed Forces) recently ordered the army to stop referring to officers who committed human rights violations during the Salvadoran Civil War as “heroes.”  

PáginaSIETE of La Paz reported that the government of President Evo Morales has decided to allow a “reasonable” increase in the level of legal coca cultivation in Bolivia,

The Buenos Aires Herald reported that Cuba has taken the first steps towards scrapping its two-tier currency. 

Dominican Today of Santo Domingo reported that a recent World Bank study indicated that the Dominican Republic is still grappling with obstacles to conducting business, and

The Buenos Aires Herald reported that a fire ravaged Copersucar’s sugar terminal in Brazil, paralyzing operations of the world’s biggest sugar trader and putting 10 million tons of export capacity offline for six months or more. 

Prensa Libre of Guatemala City happily stated that Guatemala has become the world’s largest producer of palm oil, over Malaysia and Indonesia, although its cultivation in the country only began in the late 1980s.