JUAN MIGUEL MUÑOZ São Paulo Brazilian democracy suffered a severe shock on January 8, an attempt or project of a coup that has precedents throughout the two centuries of history of this continental country exclusively when the president in office leans to the left . The vandal assault on the headquarters of Brazilian institutions by coup fanatics has unleashed a whirlwind of political and judicial events whose consequences are still unpredictable.

CECILIA VALDEZ Buenos Aires When it seemed that little news could be given in the discussion on human rights and the Argentine post-dictatorship process, the film "Argentina, 1985" shows that there is still much to be said and debated and that, like all social processes, their forms of representation also change.

CÉSAR ROBLES Lima The Congress of the Republic, with a right-wing and fascist majority, has just given a vote of confidence to the government cabinet led by Alberto Otárola, ignoring the protests and claims of various political and social sectors and becoming more critical and difficult solution a way out of the crisis that is shaking the country and that has already been claiming the lives of 49 compatriots.