we are joined now by maria luisa mendonca. she is director of the network for social justice and human rights in brazil. she is joining us in our new york city studio. can you talk about what took place on sunday and the significance of bolsonaro's not outright victory come he still has the runoff, but he got many more votes than was expected? >> that is a very dangerous situation in brazil. it could have an impact on the whole region. like i said before, former president lula actually -- if he was able to run, he would probably win easily. but there was a vacuum created because he was put in jail with charges of receiving a bribe, but actually, there is no evidence that he received the bribe. so since the parliamentary coup against presidident dilma roussf two years ago, we are in the situation of limbo. we cannot consider we have a democracy in brazil right now. result of a is the serious -- series of attacks on democracy that started two years ago with the parliamentary coup against them rousseff. amy: so dilma rousseff is