DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — The destruction to Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court and Presidential Palace on Sunday sits heavy with Brazilians in Deerfield Beach.
Now they're sharing their reactions to the events as clean-up is underway.
"It's sad nobody wants that kind of stuff in your country," Marcelo Rosa, who is from Brazil, said.
Rosa is a pilot that flies to and from Brazil. He said his friends and family were sending him updates.
"Everybody's afraid. Everybody is afraid with the economic stuff, how this thing is going to move forward. Everybody is afraid. It's not a common situation," Rosa said. "I don't agree with the invasion and the breaking stuff, but right now it's a big mess because they don't want to be clear with the election."
Rosa said the root of the problem is the Oct. 30 presidential election in which Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated incumbent Jair Balsonaro.
He said some people in Brazil are skeptical of the results.
"I have a lot of friends near Brasilia when this happened, and they told me everything," Pedro Cury, who is from Brazil, said. "I see the videos. I see everything."
Cury said in Brazil, voting is electronic, and when you cast your ballot, it's turned into a code.
Now, Brazilians like Cury are calling for the codes to be released.
"We can see (if) the election was fraud or not. If it was not, we can see we are wrong, but if it is, we have to do something about it," Cury said. "The only proof we can have it is the codes. We have to release the codes."
