i want to bring in leonardo flores, latin america campaign coordinator of codepink. part of an election observer delegation that was in bolivia for these elections. leonardo, your observations about what happened and the significance -- can you put the significance of this mas victory, the socialist victory in bolivia, in the conontext of what is happening in latin america today? on,hank you for having me amamy. i was semi-delegation is the free and fair vote. very few irregularities. no trend at the nationalal level in terms of irregularitities. this is a huge victotory, not jt for the boliviann p people, but democrcracy in general a and a w against neoliberaralism and fascscism in this couountry. in terms o of a broader contete, certaiainly w we have upcomining elections next y year in ecuauar and chile. there is talk k of a n new pinke cocoming to latin n america, referringg to a period in e eary 2000 when progogressive governmentnts took power everywherere from brbrazil to argentinina to venezuela and in other places. mentioned that pink tide. cleaearly come the