Far-right senator and family land in US after crossing from Brazil into Argentina and then flying via Ecuador
A jet carrying the Brazilian far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro has landed in Miami, Florida, where the losing candidate in Sunday’s presidential election runoff left the airport under police escort without speaking to the press.
The Gulfstream IV, registered as LV-JQW, left Guayaquil in Ecuador earlier in the day.
After losing Sunday’s election to the incumbent president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro disappeared for more than 24 hours, until Argentina’s migration authorities said he had entered the country by land on Tuesday night.
There, he boarded the Gulfstream IV. The aircraft had been parked at Puerto Iguazú airport since the early hours of the previous morning, when the first reports emerged in Argentinian media that he intended to flee on it.
US is the new Argentina I see
It was always a sympathetic home to nazis
Land of law and order…
Ah, now the American South is importing right-wing losers from other countries to bolster their numbers.
This guy is such a World Class Hypocrite that he both said “I’m not running away from Brasil” AND “I would be the victim of a witch hunt if I stayed in Brasil”.
Another “You know he’s lying by his mouth being open” type.
By the way, Brasil needs to drop the whole “Immunity for Parliamentarians” third world crap - this guy has been avoiding prosecution for several crimes for years because he was a member of the Brasilian version of Parliament (which he is not anymore, hence a Court ordering his passport confiscated and him running away to the US).
That Immunity trick keeps mafiosi far-right crime families from having to pay for their crimes as long as they go into politics and is probably what’s seriously distorting the Brasilian political landscape (in a better country a guy like Lula would’ve retired by now - in fact, he tried and that ended with Bolsonaro senior elected as President, which is why he came back and was a Presidential candidate in the following elections)
When you have to flee the country when you lost the election is a really bad sign. When you flee to the US instead if a country like Russia, the standard for fleeing to when you’re corrupt or a war criminal, that also says a lot about the US. But with a child raping pedophile as president, you can expect shit like this.
Why does the Guardian refuse to let me read any articles? Do all of you commenting have logged in Guardian accounts? I can never click a Guardian link and see anything but bullshit demanding that I log in and let their IT dogs sniff my asshole.
Its a soft paywall. Decline the upsell and it’ll give up
If you’re in the EU it demands that you either log-in or allow them to track you with cookies.
The few times I actually read the article I just open it in a Private browser window, to in this specific case that stuff is currently being covered extensivelly on TV (I’m in Portugal) so no point in reading that article.
I use UnWall to read them.
I’d assume adblock?
There’s a lot of methods to bypass paywalls. I think Firefox’s reader mode usually works for them?
edit: meaning The Guardian specifically in this case
How do the people who voted for him view this? Do they feel some sort of betrayal/abandonment? Or was there a risk if he stayed?
Apparently his party admitted they lost the election. So he’s just kind of going rogue on this one
I’m pretty sure the actual reason is he’s going to be prosecuted for tax evasion. But of course he’s framing that as a “political witch hunt by leaders of a coup”
He was literally relying on his parliamentary immunity for years to avoid being prosecuted for several crimes, not to mention that when his daddy was in power he did quite a lot to try and stop or disrupt those prosecutions (to the point of nominating a Supreme Court judge who immediatelly started interfering in those cases and the evidence around them).
Oh, and his brother too already fled Brasil to the US years ago to escape Brasilian Justice.
The Bolsonaros are a Crime Family and only the third world nature of some political structures in Brasil (most notably the way Parliamentary immunity is set up) lets people like these get to the level they get (that and the very large proportion of extremelly stupid people, similar to the US).
On the bright side, losing the election has apparently done wonders for his looks 😄
I’m glad someone else mentioned this. Wtf is that picture lol?!
A website automatically cropping a photo of him and his family, if I had to guess.
Modern journalism
He is a fugitive so he got plastic surgery to become unrecognizable, nothing to see here
Perhaps now that her latent dysphoria has been addressed Flavia may finally realize that happiness is found with your friends, not fascist assaults on democracy.
True, guess I misgendered there
Cool, going fash in Florida with the child rapists.
one of boslanaros son is living there.
Isn’t that the same place the Taint Bros. coincidentally landed in at the start of Dump’s 2nd term? You know, after being arrested in Romania for human trafficking…
I couldn’t find where they landed initially, but they were both arrested in Florida where they are currently being held.
Has Trump declared him rightful president of Brazil yet?
Trump actually washed his hands off the situation saying he ain’t getting involved.
F’course.
That’s Trump, he’s pretty mercurial. So he might change his mind.
Trump appears to have given him special permission to enter the country without a passport, soo he’s definitely kind of involved.
I can hear it now: “That election was fixed.”
Like father like son. Remember his imprisoned father going to Florida after losing in 2022?
Crime family asking for help from another crime family.
These republicans are another level of crooked.
His brother too fled to the US years ago to escape Brasilian Justice.
Welcome to the kleptocracy.
Like father like son. Remember his imprisoned father going to Florida after losing in 2022?
if Trump were already president by then he would never have returned, so here’s hoping the USA get an at least okay-ish leader soon
I thought we weren’t letting criminal immigrants in? I mean his government is looking for him for some serious crimes. And we even made an extra official immune force to get rid of these dangerous people 🤔 How did this one have a hot off the press visa waiting for him in Florida? Someone must have stumbled with some paperwork somewhere. /s
Well, now when they say Latin Americans are Criminals they can use Flavio as an example.
Nothing screams Nationalism like fleeing your nation
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A true patriot, working for the people of his country, not beholden to any foreign power. Oh wait…
I fled my nation (the US). I also have so much disdain for the country that has only caused me harm and trauma that I refuse to be labeled as such, I even switched to using the passport of my birth country (in part because the US won’t let me renew)
So yeah, agreed
Florida literally harboring the worst criminals in the world for decades.
One of the worst relocated to DC unfortunately.
“Relocated”. I’m sure he spends more time on Mar-a-lago golf course
Like Rubio’s family!
Including himself, of course.
Florida seem like the hangout spot for the world’s traitors. Strange that they put up with that
Florida has always sucked. The North Trump Ocean can’t swallow it quickly enough. 20 years from now, it’ll just be fake tits and fat MAGA fascists floating around their literally-underwater homes…all saying nobody expected this.
