In El Nuevo Diario of Managua, Karlos Navarro wrote that during most of the twentieth century Nicaraguan political life has been dominated by “different ideological hues” of authoritarianism. 

MercoPress of Montevideo noted that 2014 will be a big year for elections in Latin America, with significant contests in Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Panama, Costa Rica, and El Salvador. 

Edward Davis wrote in La Nación of Buenos Aires that President Rousseff’s year is off to a tough start,

Martín Gambarotta asserted in the Buenos Aires Herald that now in Argentina ‘K’ is for Kicillof. 

In La Jornada of Mexico City Alma E. Muñoz observed that Andrés Manuel López Obrador had announced a new stage of struggle to combat corruption,

So argued León Valencia in Semana Magazine of Bogotá.  Things have not gone well lately for former President Álvaro Uribe. 

Sergio Arauz of El Faro Magazine of San Salvador spoke with Marcos Rodríguez, a key advisor

El Telégrafo of Guayaquil explored the case of Ecuador in an editorial. 

Juan Manuel López Caballero in Dinero Magazine of Bogotá remembered that at one point in his term, the then President of Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen, wondered whether Colombia would be falling into the category of “non-viable countries.” 

In El Universal of Mexico City Alberto Aziz Nassif argued that in Mexico “power vacuums are filled by the worst special interests.”