Jack Eidt  wrote in Honduras Weekly of Tegucigalpa that “sleepy Trujillo now finds itself at a cross-roads.”  The “Banana Coast” cruise ship port deal which promises to change everything has already been inked and foreigners, mainly from Canada, are filing in to buy a small part of their dream of a wild tropical paradise.

Buenos Aires Herald reported that Juan Gelman, one of Argentina’s best known poets and certainly one of the most loved by readers, died in Mexico City where he lived after going into exile just before the last military dictatorship seized power in 1976.  

El Universal of Mexico City noted that twenty-eight years after his death, the author of Pedro Páramo and The Burning Plain was commemorated as one of the leaders of Mexican literature. 

La Jornada of Mexico City noted that Frida and Diego had a good run in Paris. 

Inside Costa Rica of San José reported that three quarters of raw sewage in Latin America is dumped completely untreated into rivers and other water sources,

MercoPress of Montevideo reported that a labor appeals court in north-central Argentina ruled that the construction of a Monsanto plant is unconstitutional, halting work on the site.

MercoPress of Montevideo noted that Spain stepped in to try and resolve a cost dispute over the expansion of Panama’s canal, which has triggered a sell-off in the shares of Sacyr SA, the Spanish builder leading the project.  

El Universal of Mexico City reported that on the eve of his participation in the the G -77 plus China Summit, the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, called on the world leaders to build a “new world”

Marcelo Ninio wrote in Folha de São Paulo that football can have an impact on diplomacy. 

Zach Dyer wrote in The Tico Times of San José that despite the legalization of recreational cannabis in the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington, the U.S. federal government remains focused on anti-drug law enforcement policies across Latin America.