circa 200/300 venezuelans cross the border into brazil everyday. last week, it peaked to 800. let them come. unfortunately, here, they only have as much freedom as possible within a life as miserable or more miserable than they used to have in venezuela. yesterday night, in manaus, amazonas, hundreds of them were dispersed through force by our military police. meanwhile, lula remains silent. although his special advisor for international affairs, celso amorim, currently at miraflores, said we "can't just go around claiming it was fraud or that everything is perfect. I'm not one to believe everything that is said, but I also won't jump to say it was fraud. it's a complex situation, and we want a democratic regime for venezuela in a peaceful manner. as far as I know, there hasn't been any major incident." war is peace.