Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after Brazil election loss

Flávio Bolsonaro disembarks from a plane after arriving at Opa-locka executive airport near Miami. Photograph: Eva Marie Uzcategui/ReutersView image in fullscreenFlávio Bolsonaro disembarks from a plane after arriving at Opa-locka executive airport near Miami.

Fotografia: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Reuters Flávio Bolsonaro chega a Miami após derrota nas eleições brasileiras Senador de extrema-direita e família chegam aos EUA depois de atravessar do Brasil para a Argentina e depois voar via Equador.

Prefer the Guardian on GoogleA 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.

Ali, ele embarcou no Gulfstream IV. A aeronave estava estacionada no aeroporto de Puerto Iguazú desde as primeiras horas da manhã anterior, quando surgiram os primeiros relatos na mídia argentina de que ele pretendia fugir a bordo.

Bolsonaro, the son of the jailed former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, boarded the jet with his wife and two daughters at about 11. 30pm, bound for Guayaquil, reportedly to avoid Brazilian airspace.

Eles fizeram uma breve parada no Equador e continuaram em direção ao aeroporto executivo Miami-Opa Locka.

Bolsonaro and his family got off the plane and briefly remained inside the airport. Then they emerged, shielded by black umbrellas, climbed into a dark gray Ford Expedition MAX and sped away under police escort.

Ele não disse nada antes de embarcar no veículo.

He is expected to hold a press conference in the US today or tomorrow.

A senior US state department official told media outlets that visas would be granted to Bolsonaro and his family, and on Tuesday night Donald Trump said he would approve their move to the country.

Ver imagem em tela cheia Lula cumprimenta apoiadores enquanto celebra seu aniversário e reeleição. Fotografia: Pablo Porciúncula/AFP/Getty Images "Eles são pessoas boas.

The election was very strange, and I thought it was terrible,” Trump said as he returned from a campaign event in Texas. “I didn’t take sides, you know. I know them both.

I know Lula. I know Flávio a little bit. I know the father very well.”.

Lula called Bolsonaro’s flight “shameful”. “This is what the Bolsonaro family are like. Brazil is their second homeland. Their first homeland is licking the boots of the US, as they’ve become accustomed to doing,” he said at an event celebrating his 81st birthday in Brasília.

Alguns no governo brasileiro suspeitavam que aliados de Bolsonaro haviam passado terça-feira em privado dizendo à imprensa que ele já estava a caminho dos EUA para distrair da sua real intenção de passar pela Argentina.

The federal police are facing criticism for failing to prevent him from leaving the country.

There is a gap between the last time he was seen by allies at about 6pm on Monday and the moment he entered Argentina late on Tuesday. It remains unclear how or when he travelled to the border, or where he was during that time.

Footage from a television channel there shows two vans crossing the border checkpoint and then being escorted by airport security officers to the airport.

The Argentinian newspaper Página/12 reported that the aircraft belonged to the businessman Sergio Daniel Mastropietro, who was investigated by local police in one of the biggest scandals of Javier Milei’s administration, involving the alleged payment of bribes linked to the purchase of medicines for people with disabilities.

Foi, em conexão com esse caso, que, logo após o resultado das eleições, a polícia brasileira solicitou ao Supremo Tribunal que ordenasse a retenção do passaporte de Bolsonaro, por temores de que ele pudesse fugir, citando uma entrevista dada na última sexta-feira por seu irmão, o ex‑congressista Eduardo Bolsonaro.

Speaking on a podcast in the US, where he is in self-imposed exile and lobbying the Trump administration against Lula, Eduardo said if his brother were to lose the election, he should not concede and should go to the US.

O Globo newspaper reported that the escape had been planned for weeks as a contingency in case he lost, and that Eduardo had been its main organiser, holding talks with US officials about receiving the senator.

Fugir do Brasil quase se tornou prática padrão entre os apoiadores de Bolsonaro que enfrentam acusações criminais ou condenações no país: cerca de uma dúzia de políticos ou influenciadores próximos a Jair Bolsonaro fizeram o mesmo nos últimos anos.

The former president himself spent three months in Florida shortly after losing the 2022 election. He later returned to Brazil and, while facing trial over the attempted coup, spent two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasília, then run by his ally Viktor Orbán.

While under house arrest after being sentenced to 27 years in prison, the patriarch of the Bolsonaro clan used a soldering iron in an attempt to destroy his electronic ankle monitor.