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Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil despite court order over passports, Trump backs his US entry
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Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil despite court order over passports, Trump backs his US entry

The Indian Express·about 14 hours ago
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Amid conflicting reports about Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro fleeing to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential election, Bloomberg has reported that he has landed in the US, while other reports have yet to independently confirm his arrival. The development comes after Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the defeated right-wing candidate to surrender his passports within 24 hours, citing the risk that he could flee the country.

The son of jailed former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro lost the election to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and has refused to concede defeat. Two sources told Reuters that Flavio’s passports were cancelled after he failed to meet the court’s deadline to surrender them.

A senior US State Department official told Reuters on Tuesday that the agency would grant entry visas to Flavio Bolsonaro and his family.…

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