JUAN MIGUEL MUÑOZ São Paulo The unwritten rule has been fulfilled: whoever wins the first round of the Brazilian elections becomes president in the second. Twelve years after leaving Planalto, and after spending time in prison after a judicial process riddled with irregularities, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will return to the presidential palace on January 1.

The man eats the grass The donkey the candy The granddaughter sends the grandfather And the jack to the king of clubs. JAVIER GARCÍA We live in the upside-down world that Violeta Parra sang and that Eduardo Galeano also described. What's new is that now that upside down planet is told to you daily by the mainstream media and broadcast on television.

J. CARLOS GÓMEZ One of the greats of Latin American music says goodbye: Totó La Momposina. At 82 years old, with more than sixty years of career and a sympathy that she falls in love with at first contact, Sonia Bazanta Vides leaves the stages where she has represented the value of music from the Caribbean coast of Colombia.