Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in Miami after election defeat

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his ​family arrived in Miami on Wednesday, where the United States government will grant them entry visas after he refused to comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court order to surrender his passports.

Bolsonaro, who lost Sunday’s presidential election to leftist incumbent ⁠Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, left Brazil under a shroud of secrecy after the court order, which relates to a money-laundering investigation in which he denies wrongdoing.

Reuters TV images showed Bolsonaro, his wife and two daughters disembarking from the Gulfstream G400 and heading into Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport.

Their ⁠journey to the United States captured attention ​across the ⁠region. They entered northern Argentina late on Tuesday evening, according to the country’s migration department, and then took a private jet to the Ecuadorean city ⁠of Guayaquil. From there, they flew to Miami.

Neither Argentina’s presidency, Ecuadorean ministries nor Baires ​Fly, the ⁠operator of the private jet, ‌responded to requests for comment.

Bolsonaro’s departure threatens to deepen a rift between the two most populous nations in the Americas.

Lula has accused Washington of colluding with ‌the Bolsonaro family to help return them to power. ‌Ahead of Sunday’s election, Reuters reported on a US State Department…

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