Latin America

CECILIA VALDEZ
Buenos Aires
One of the great innovations brought about by the CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Summit, held in Buenos Aires last January, in addition to the return of Brazil to the bloc led by Lula, was the announcement of a common South American currency. . A project that is not new -since both the currency and a common bank were ideas raised and materialized by the first wave of progressive governments-, but that is being debated again today within the framework of a Latin American region once again leaning to the left ( with all possible nuances inside it), and with the novelty that this time it includes Colombia.

CESAR ROBLES
Lima

A new political actor has emerged as a result of the massive social protests that occurred in southern Peru, and particularly in the Puno region. They are the so-called "autoconvocados", individuals who do not represent political organizations or collectives, trade unions or cultural or neighborhood associations, but who clearly and openly express their political positions and have a significant and gravitating presence in the protest movement against Dina Bolaurte. .

JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
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 there was little new in the discussion on human rights and the Argentine post-dictatorship process, the film "Argentina, 1985" shows that there is still much to say and debate and that, like any social process, its forms of representation are also changing. .

CESAR 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 making a situation more critical and difficult to solve. way out of the crisis that is shaking the country and that has already been claiming the lives of 49 compatriots.

JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
São Paulo
There were no precedents for such an event in Brazil. A week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasilia, the headquarters of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers became the scene of vandalism by several thousand supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who invaded the interior of the Chambers, the Supreme Court building, and the Planalto Palace, seat of the Presidency of the Republic.

JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
Brasilia
In a Brasilia dressed in red, with tens of thousands of jubilant people arriving from all the states of the immense republic, Luiz Inázio Lula da Silva began his third term as president of Brazil on New Year's Day, at the age of 77 ( governed between 2003 and 2010).

CESAR ROBLES
Lima
The convulsion in the country has already left 26 dead, hundreds injured, a deeply fragmented society, a completely incompetent political class and a president who is incapable of understanding the general demand of the population that demands her resignation and the advancement of general elections to get out. of the political crisis into which they have led us.

CESAR ROBLES
Lima
The declaration of emergency for 30 days at the national level approved by the government of Dina Boluarte. that allows the entry of the Armed Forces to "support" the National Police in its task of providing guarantees and security to the population, the only thing that has generated is an escalation of the conflict and a worsening of the political crisis in Peru.