Flávio Bolsonaro Flees Brazil

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Updated 11:52am ET

Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil with his family despite a Supreme Court travel ban. Bolsonaro, his wife and two daughters arrived in Miami on October 28 after crossing into Argentina and taking a private flight via Ecuador. Argentina’s migration authority said they entered with valid travel documents. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential runoff by more than four million votes, after Bolsonaro had led the first round. The Supreme Court had ordered Bolsonaro to surrender his passports during investigations into alleged financial crimes, including money laundering; he denies wrongdoing. President Donald Trump welcomed the move and questioned the election without evidence. Lula called the departure shameful.

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Left-leaning outlets framed Bolsonaro’s exit as evasion of legal scrutiny, with U.S. help sharpening the stakes. The New York Times emphasized canceled passports and a money-laundering probe while warning that U.S. assistance could raise tensions with Lula’s government. HuffPost linked the move to a Bolsonaro family pattern of losing and going to Florida.

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Right-leaning outlets cast the episode as refuge from political persecution after a suspect election, not as simple evasion. The Blaze centered doubts on the voting extension and said it stirred fraud suspicions. The New York Post portrayed the courts as tools against legitimate opposition and treated Trump’s welcome as the answer to Bolsonaro’s disputed defeat.

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