So observed Soledad Marambio in Qué Pasa Magazine of Santiago.  She noted that “it is not uncommon for many to believe that New York has become or is on track to be a new capital in Latin American writing, something like a Boom reincarnation of Paris.” 

MercoPress of Montevideo reported that a frustrated President José Mujica has called for a readjustment of the Mercosur legal framework. 

Buenos Aires Herald observed with some degree of snark that the biggest news coming out of Cuba on the 55th anniversary of the Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power was the exorbitant prices of automobiles.

Brazil’s trade surplus fell to its lowest level in over a decade in 2013 — hurt by lower commodities prices, an increase in fuel imports and declining competitiveness among manufacturers —

La Razón of La Paz reported that a port strike in Iquique, Chile stranded Bolivian truckers,

Raúl Dellatorre Página/12 of Buenos Aires noted that the arrival of intense heat in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area has yet again caused the collapse of the electrical distribution system, and wondered

El Comercio of Lima noted that consumer confidence in Peru had reached its highest level in two years. 

MercoPress of Montevideo reported that Brazil’s Finance Minister Guido Mantega insisted that the government is keeping spending under control as he sought to calm anxiety about the deterioration of the government’s accounts.

In Latinamerica Press of Lima Felivia Mejía wrote of the “alarming reality” of femicide in the Dominican Republic. 

MercoPress of Montevideo reported the collapse of Brazilian jails, where “one convict is slain every two days.”