{"id":667457,"date":"2026-10-28T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667457\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:56:09","slug":"us-says-it-will-issue-visa-to-flavio-bolsonaro-after-election-loss-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667457\/","title":{"rendered":"US says it will issue visa to Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro after election loss \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior US state department official has said Brazilian opposition candidate Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted US visas after his weekend defeat to incumbent president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bolsonaro, who had president Donald Trump\u2019s tacit support, had been under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion in Brazil and had been ordered to surrender his passport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The US state department official did not say if Bolsonaro had already left Brazil or if he and his family were en route to the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bolsonaro was reported to have left Brazil after refusing to comply with a supreme court order to hand over his \u200bpassports, two sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Bolsonaro was favoured to win Sunday\u2019s presidential election but ended up losing in a \u200bshock result to leftist incumbent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva\/\">Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Monday, he was given 24 hours to \u2060hand in his passports as part of a money-laundering investigation in which \u200che denies \u200cwrongdoing, \u200bbut that deadline has now lapsed, two other sources said, leading to his documents being cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Flavio\u2019s father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, also \u2060went to the United States after \u200brefusing to concede losing to Lula in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/americas\/2026\/10\/27\/the-question-gripping-brazil-has-trump-ally-flavio-bolsonaro-fled-to-the-us\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The question gripping Brazil: Has Trump ally Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro fled to the US?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He \u200beventually returned to Brazil but was later given a 27-year sentence for plotting a \u200ccoup. His son has yet to officially \u200bconcede defeat \u2013 saying on Sunday he would seek the annulment of the result over \u2060alleged voter irregularities \u2013 but his Liberal Party \u2060said on Monday \u200bit acknowledged Lula\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A senior Brazilian Federal Police official said Bolsonaro has not exited the country via any regular migration point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Right-wing influencer Paulo Figueiredo, who serves as a sort of unofficial spokesperson for the Bolsonaro family, declined to answer questions about Bolsonaro\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAfter months of intense work that has been unfairly thwarted, I am not in the mood to speak to the press,\u201d he \u200csaid in a message. \u201cIf I \u2060have any comments to make on any matter, I will get in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Eduardo Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro\u2019s younger brother who lives in the United States, said ahead \u200cof the vote that an election loss would require a move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIf my brother does not win, I\u2019m \u200bin favour that he would leave the country,\u201d he told podcaster \u200bSteven Crowder this month. \u2013 Reuters\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior US state department official has said Brazilian opposition candidate Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro and his family will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13983,42,6285,43,40,38,41,39,39510],"class_list":["post-667457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-election","tag-headlines","tag-horizontal","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}