Prensa Gráfica of San Salvador reported that Jorge Velado, president of the ARENA party’s national executive council, alleged that the ruling leftist FMLN party and its presidential candidate, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, are perpetrating political harassment

Fredy Martin reported in El Universal of Mexico City that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) announced, in a statement signed by Subcomandante Marcos, that the armed group cannot ignore the “climate of hysteria”

Maite Azuela lamented in El Universal of Mexico City that despite the recommendation of the UN, which encouraged the government of Mexico to ratify educational reform

PáginaSIETE of La Paz editorialized that in Bolivia “almost half of women elected to office (as city council members) claim to have been victims of violence and political harassment, aggressiveness, and abuse” in regards to their official functions. 

So argues James Neilson in the Buenos Aires Herald.  Ever since Sergio Massa emerged on the scene as a presidential contender people have been wondering “what exactly does he stand for?” 

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.