Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami on Wednesday after departing Brazil.
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The departure followed 48 hours during which Bolsonaro refused to concede to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and threatened to seek an annulment of the election result.
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His father, Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to Florida after losing the 2022 presidential election to Lula before returning to Brazil three months later.
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On Monday, the U.S. announced it would grant visas to the longtime Trump ally and his family.
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Argentina's migration authority said Wednesday that Bolsonaro fled from Brazil through Argentina and Ecuador alongside his wife and two daughters, one day after the 45-year-old senator and his family received visas from the Trump administration.
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Bolsonaro is under investigation by Brazil’s Supreme Court over alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion in two cases.
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The court ordered him to surrender his regular and diplomatic passports by noon Tuesday, two days after losing the vote to Lula.
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It remains unclear if he complied, though allies stated late Tuesday he holds an Italian passport.
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Argentine officials said Bolsonaro, his wife Fernanda Antunes Figueira Bolsonaro, and daughters Carolina Figueira Bolsonaro and Luiza Figueira Bolsonaro entered at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday.
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They crossed via the Tancredo Neves International Bridge, a main checkpoint linking Brazil to Argentina’s Misiones province.
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"Those who did so possessed valid travel documentation and faced no legal impediments to entering the country," the Argentine migration authority said on X.
The authority stated that at 11:30 p.m. local time, after clearing immigration, the four boarded a Baires Fly S.A. private charter flight bound for Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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The move will likely trigger major diplomatic friction between Lula and Argentine President Javier Milei, a Trump ally who traveled to Brazil to support Bolsonaro’s campaign.
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Tracking from FlightRadar24 showed an aircraft matching Bolsonaro’s route landed in Guayaquil around 4 a.m. local time, departing minutes later for Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport.
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The plane carrying Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami at about 9:30 a.m. EST.
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Lula, who turned 81 on Tuesday, addressed supporters outside the presidential residence in Brasilia before the arrival, stating he lacked detailed information on Bolsonaro’s whereabouts but confirmed he had left Brazil.
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"I regret that he left Brazil, because he could have stayed here and proven that the accusations are not true," Lula said.
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"This act of leaving Brazil is shameful."
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Paulo Figueiredo, a U.S.-based Bolsonaro ally, said in a statement he could not confirm foreign reports, adding "Flávio Bolsonaro is well, in security and resting with his family."
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He said a Thursday press conference in Miami would discuss the case.
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Representatives for Brazil's government did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said early Wednesday he approved of Bolsonaro coming to the U.S., calling him and his family "fine people."
"The election was really strange, and I thought it was terrible," Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, following a Tuesday trip to Texas.
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He did not elaborate, but stressed he did not endorse the result.
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World leaders and the Organization of American States, or OAS, endorsed the outcome and congratulated Lula, who won reelection by about 4.4 million votes in the runoff.
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On Tuesday, Milei's administration spokesman Adrián Ravier said: "There is no asylum request (from Bolsonaro) and there is nothing more to add."
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