A Timeline of Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro’s Wild Journey to the United States
- On Wednesday, defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro arrived in Miami aboard a private jet after fleeing Brazil, following his election defeat to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula.
- Amid an ongoing money-laundering investigation, the Brazilian Supreme Court and Moraes ordered Flavio to surrender his passports on Tuesday; rather than comply, Flavio fled the country.
- Crossing into Argentina by land on Tuesday night, Flavio traveled through Ecuador before landing at Miami's Opa-locka Executive Airport on Wednesday; the Trump administration had granted the family entry visas.
- President Donald Trump stated he would have approved the arrival, while Lula described the departure as 'shameful.' The Trump administration granted the Bolsonaro family visas on Tuesday.
- Jair remains under house arrest in Brazil for attempting to overturn a previous election, while Flavio joins other displaced Latin American right-wingers in Florida.
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RECIT - After passing under radar, the unfortunate candidate in the Brazilian presidential election, targeted by several investigations, landed this Wednesday at an airport near Miami.
(Mexico City = Yonhap News) Correspondent Song Gwang-ho = Surrounding Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who fled to the United States in violation of a court-ordered exit ban following his presidential election defeat...
Freshly Humiliated Flavio Bolsonaro Scurries Off To Miami
Three short weeks after he appeared to be on the cusp of assuming the presidency of Brazil and turbocharging the fascist revival movement started by his cadaverous father Jair, Flavio Bolsonaro is now a fugitive from the Brazilian justice system. Having been humiliated by an octogenarian in Brazil's presidential election, he was unable to gin up any support for an election theft, and was thus forced to choose between handing over his passport or…
A timeline of Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro’s wild journey to the United States
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Flavio Bolsonaro’s sudden departure from Brazil — less than three days after his election defeat — started on Sunday with his refusal to concede in the runoff and culminated in his arrival in Miami via Argentina and Ecuador aboard a private jet on Wednesday. The right-wing lawmaker left after receiving a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports in connection with a money-laundering investiga…
Less than 48 hours after his electoral defeat, Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil with his family to Miami, despite having announced that he would lead the opposition from his country and that he would hand over his passports.
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