Far-right senator and family land in US after crossing from Brazil into Argentina and then flying via Ecuador

A 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.

There, he boarded the Gulfstream IV. The aircraft had been parked at Puerto Iguazú airport since the early hours of the previous morning, when the first reports emerged in Argentinian media that he intended to flee on it.

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    When you have to flee the country when you lost the election is a really bad sign. When you flee to the US instead if a country like Russia, the standard for fleeing to when you’re corrupt or a war criminal, that also says a lot about the US. But with a child raping pedophile as president, you can expect shit like this.

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    7 hours ago

    Why does the Guardian refuse to let me read any articles? Do all of you commenting have logged in Guardian accounts? I can never click a Guardian link and see anything but bullshit demanding that I log in and let their IT dogs sniff my asshole.

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    9 hours ago

    How do the people who voted for him view this? Do they feel some sort of betrayal/abandonment? Or was there a risk if he stayed?

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      Apparently his party admitted they lost the election. So he’s just kind of going rogue on this one

      I’m pretty sure the actual reason is he’s going to be prosecuted for tax evasion. But of course he’s framing that as a “political witch hunt by leaders of a coup”

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      Isn’t that the same place the Taint Bros. coincidentally landed in at the start of Dump’s 2nd term? You know, after being arrested in Romania for human trafficking…

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        I couldn’t find where they landed initially, but they were both arrested in Florida where they are currently being held.

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      11 hours ago

      Trump actually washed his hands off the situation saying he ain’t getting involved.

      F’course.

      That’s Trump, he’s pretty mercurial. So he might change his mind.

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    19 hours ago

    Like father like son. Remember his imprisoned father going to Florida after losing in 2022?

    Crime family asking for help from another crime family.

    These republicans are another level of crooked.

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      16 hours ago

      Like father like son. Remember his imprisoned father going to Florida after losing in 2022?

      if Trump were already president by then he would never have returned, so here’s hoping the USA get an at least okay-ish leader soon

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    18 hours ago

    I thought we weren’t letting criminal immigrants in? I mean his government is looking for him for some serious crimes. And we even made an extra official immune force to get rid of these dangerous people 🤔 How did this one have a hot off the press visa waiting for him in Florida? Someone must have stumbled with some paperwork somewhere. /s

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      15 hours ago

      A true patriot, working for the people of his country, not beholden to any foreign power. Oh wait…

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      I fled my nation (the US). I also have so much disdain for the country that has only caused me harm and trauma that I refuse to be labeled as such, I even switched to using the passport of my birth country (in part because the US won’t let me renew)

      So yeah, agreed

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      Florida has always sucked. The North Trump Ocean can’t swallow it quickly enough. 20 years from now, it’ll just be fake tits and fat MAGA fascists floating around their literally-underwater homes…all saying nobody expected this.

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    18 hours ago

    “International criminal feeling justice welcomed by US government.” – Not really surprising given the nature of the current administration.

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      Current administration my ass, we’ve been harboring war criminals since before ww2.