Luciana Geuna, who reports for Critica, a daily newspaper in Buenos Aires, Argentina, covered the election in Florida, site of the hard-fought 2000 election that brought George W. Bush to the White House. She spent a 10-day attachment with the Tallahassee Democrat.

“Staying 10 days in Tallahassee has been a great lesson to understand deeply this country. In cities like Tallahassee you get the opportunity to live and see the black and white of the America way of living…

“I’ve seen happy people voting in this capital that had such a bad experience in voting just eight years ago. I’ve seen Barack Obama wining this election. This country has that unique way of development where you see hard and historical contradictions with some radical people against civil rights, but anyone can come here and also see that the majority of the citizenship has just elected an African American guy, a young senator full of hope and new ideas, as their next President.”