MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro and his family have landed in Miami after fleeing Brazil.<\/p>\n
The stunning move comes after 48 hours in which Bolsonaro refused to concede to Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva and then threatened to attempt to annul the election result.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro\u2019s father, Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to Florida after losing the 2022 presidential election to Lula. On Monday, the U.S. said that it would grant visas to Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro and his family. Bolsonaro, a Trump ally, visited the White House in May.<\/p>\n
Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate, fled his country to Argentina and then Ecuador alongside his wife and two daughters, Argentina\u2019s migration authority said Wednesday \u2014 a day after the 45-year-old senator and his family were granted United States visas<\/a> by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n Bolsonaro is under investigation by Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion in two cases. The court had ordered Bolsonaro to hand over his regular and diplomatic passports by noon Tuesday \u2014 two days after he lost the vote to incumbent Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva. It remained unclear whether he had complied, but allies said late Tuesday he also has an Italian passport.<\/p>\n Argentina\u2019s migration authority said Bolsonaro, his wife Fernanda Antunes Figueira Bolsonaro, and his daughters Carolina Figueira Bolsonaro and Luiza Figueira Bolsonaro crossed into the country at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday. They entered via the Tancredo Neves International Bridge, a primary border checkpoint linking Brazil to Argentina\u2019s northeastern province of Misiones.<\/p>\n \u201cThose who did so possessed valid travel documentation and faced no legal impediments to entering the country,\u201d the Argentine migration authority said on X.<\/p>\n The authority said that at 11:30 p.m. local time, shortly after clearing immigration control, the four boarded a private charter flight operated by aviation company Baires Fly S.A. According to the filed flight plan, the aircraft departed for Guayaquil, Ecuador.<\/p>\n The move is almost certain to cause a big diplomatic rift<\/a> between Brazil\u2019s newly reelected Lula and his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei, a Trump ally who traveled to Brazil to take part in Bolsonaro\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n Bolsonaro and his family could be headed to Miami<\/p>\n Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed that a plane fitting the description of Bolsonaro\u2019s landed in Guayaquil at about 4 a.m. local time, before taking off minutes later for Miami\u2019s Opa Locka executive airport. It was not clear whether the defeated candidate was on board.<\/p>\n Lula, who turned 81 on Tuesday, told several dozen supporters outside the presidential residence in Brasilia that he did not have precise information about Bolsonaro\u2019s whereabouts, but said he had left Brazil.<\/p>\n \u201cI regret that he left Brazil, because he could have stayed here and proven that the accusations are not true,\u201d Lula said. \u201cThis act of leaving Brazil is shameful.\u201d<\/p>\n Paulo Figueiredo, a close Bolsonaro ally who lives in the U.S., said in a short statement he cannot confirm information from foreign authorities, but added \u201cFl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro is well, in security and resting with his family.\u201d Figueiredo also said there would be a press conference Thursday in Miami to discuss the case.<\/p>\n Representatives of Brazil\u2019s government did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n U.S. President Donald Trump said early Wednesday that he would approve of Bolsonaro coming to the U.S., calling him and his family \u201cfine people.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe election was really strange, and I thought it was terrible,\u201d Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, after returning from campaigning in Texas on Tuesday. He did not elaborate but stressed that he didn\u2019t endorse the election results.<\/p>\n Leaders all over the world and the Organization of American States, or OAS, endorsed the result and congratulated Lula, who was reelected by a margin of about 4.4 million votes in the second and final round.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Milei\u2019s administration spokesman Adri\u00e1n Ravier said \u201cthere is no asylum request (from Bolsonaro) and there is nothing more to add.\u201d<\/p>\n Bolsonaro visited his father who is under house arrest before leaving Brazil<\/p>\n The defeated candidate was served with a Supreme Court order to surrender his Brazilian passports Monday. In a video, he said he received it outside the home where his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest<\/a> for attempting a coup following his 2022 election loss to Lula.<\/p>\n After that defeat, Jair Bolsonaro fled Brazil for Florida<\/a>. He returned three months later.<\/p>\n Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro said on Monday in a video that he was attempting to organize opposition among his congressional colleagues to the election results. His eight-year term as a senator expires Jan. 31, 2027, which will also cause him to lose special jurisdiction at the country\u2019s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court is investigating Bolsonaro for allegedly using a sports betting company to launder fraudulent deductions from government pensions paid to senior citizens. 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