if i was to go back to rio or sao paolo now, would i see a difference? what would i see? >> you would see a country whose people is more comfortable with the current... its current situation. there is a sense of hope that has been restored to the country compared to that time. that was the time when we had established democracy, reestablished democracy, but we were entering the period of economictability. democracy and economic stability have been the two pillars upon which two brazilian governments, the government led by president fernando henrique cardoso and the government led by president luiz inacio lula da silva, built the current reality of brazil, which is a promising reality. >> hinojosa: a promising reality. and yet, you know, i think back to the first time that i was in brazil, in 1982, and if you were a supporter of lula, if you were a member of the pt, the parto dos trabalhadores, the workers party, you basically were living in fear from being arrested, from being somehow tied to lula. and then he becomes president. >> yeah, that is the beauty of democracy. i