Miami, FL – Secretary of State Marco Rubio has denied that the United States government assisted Brazilian politician Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro in traveling to Miami following Brazil’s presidential election.<\/p>\n
Speaking Saturday, during diplomatic meetings in Atlanta, Rubio said American officials did not arrange Bolsonaro’s departure from Brazil or transportation to the United States.<\/p>\n
Rubio explained that Bolsonaro already possessed a valid U.S. visa and that President Donald Trump authorized his entry. He maintained that officials learned about the trip after Bolsonaro arrived.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro, 45, reportedly reached Miami on October 28, three days after losing Brazil’s presidential runoff election to incumbent President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian senator has disputed the election results, alleging voting irregularities without presenting evidence supporting those claims.<\/p>\n
Brazilian authorities are investigating Bolsonaro over alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. Investigators previously sought restrictions on his travel because of concerns that he could leave the country.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing and characterized the investigations as politically motivated.<\/p>\n
His father, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year prison sentence following his conviction for attempting to overturn Brazil’s 2022 presidential election.<\/p>\n
Trump has publicly supported the younger Bolsonaro and defended his presence in the United States.<\/p>\n
Rubio also confirmed discussions with Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira concerning relations between the two countries. Additional diplomatic meetings are expected in November.<\/p>\n
Bolsonaro’s departure has raised questions about his political future and ongoing legal proceedings in Brazil.<\/p>\n
Brazilian authorities have not announced a resolution to the investigations or confirmed when Bolsonaro might return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami, FL – Secretary of State Marco Rubio has denied that the United States government assisted Brazilian politician…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19307,2811,171960,173507,3858,8877,123,125,124,78226],"class_list":["post-445806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-brazil","tag-election","tag-flavio-bolsonaro","tag-government-involvement","tag-investigations","tag-marco-rubio","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-politician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}