That’s what David Jessop wonders in DominicanToday of Santo Domingo.  In February of this year Cuba’s President, Raúl Castro, said that he will step down in 2018.

In Chile’s presidential and legislative election on November 17, 2013 former President Michelle Bachelet, candidate of the left-leaning Nueva Mayoría (New Majority) coalition, took an impressive lead with 47% of the vote,

Marco Cáceres said in Honduras Weekly of Tegucigalpa that there’s “one muddy election a comin’,” but still indulged in a little political soothsaying. 

Mercopress of Montevideo noted that the Uruguayan government has rejected Argentina’s ultimatum concerning the UPM (former Botnia) pulp mill’s production expansion,

El Espectador of Bogotá reports that the Colombian government will turn to Spain for a tourism makeover for Bogotá. 

El Nuevo Diario of Managua says “the gamble was a success.”  Puerto Allende has become one of the largest amusement parks in Nicaragua, with numerous restaurants, receiving 94,000 visitors a month. 

Ricardo Calil in Folha de São Paulo says that “at first glance” Mariana Rondón’s new film “Pelo Malo” (“Bad Hair”) “looks like a realistic drama about daily life in a poor country seen through the eyes of a child.” 

So says Juan David Torres Duarte in El Espectador of Bogotá.  Europe and the United States have long dominated the market, but now

In El Comercio of Peru Manuel Manticorena Solís examined how the Brazilian cosmetics company Natura has worked to reforest the Amazon and offset its emissions. 

O Estado de São Paulo reported that after three years of decline, the illegal logging in Pará State is once again on the rise, increasing 151% from August 2011 to July 2012, compared to the previous period.