Martín Granovsky observed in Página/12 of Buenos Aires that Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are getting ready for another period of overlap in power,

MercoPress of Montevideo reported that Uruguayan president Jose Mujica again questioned Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s trade policies

El Telégrafo of Guayaquil reported that Ecuador’s government had requested 1,000 doctors from Cuba, and that the first physicians are scheduled to arrive in December.

La Jornada of Mexico City reported that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) finally settled the territorial dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. 

PáginaSIETE of La Paz reported how political analyst and former senator Carlos Borth believes that in the coming presidential debates

In Prensa Libre of Guatemala City José Rosales noted that physical, psychological, and sexual assault against Indian women from different regions of the country was the main issue

The Buenos Aires Herald noted that Michelle Bachelet’s supporters in poor neighborhoods demand tuition-free education and other social benefits. 

Marco Antonio Martins in Folha de São Paulo reported that Rio de Janeiro Governor Sergio Cabral backs more aggressive action by the military police during protests. 

Lorena Baires wrote in Inside Costa Rica of San José of the search in Central America for new strategies to protect schools from the violence committed by gangs, which contributes to the academic failure of about 3.6 million children each year. 

Ever antagonistic to Kirchnerista policy, James Neilson of the Buenos Aires Herald observed that Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner insists on reinforcing her “economic model.”