Flávio Bolsonaro Leaves Brazil for the United States After Election Defeat Just days after a painful loss in Brazil’s presidential runoff, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro slipped out of the country and headed for the United States, ignoring a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports. The sequence moved fast. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had just secured reelection. Corruption and money-laundering probes against Bolsonaro were tightening, and Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered him to surrender both his regular and diplomatic passports within 24 hours. Instead of complying, the right-wing…
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