After the presidential elections, which were soundly lost, came the escape. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro violated the ban on leaving Brazil and fled to Florida, together with his wife Fernanda and daughters Luiza and Carolina. The Trump administration has already made it known that it is willing to grant him political asylum.
Bolsonaro thus escapes Brazilian justice: he is in fact under investigation for corruption, money laundering and currency evasion.
The escape
Flavio Bolsonaro is reunited with his brother Eduardo, also a fugitive, who lives between Orlando and Miami, thanks to the green card also issued by the White House.
In reality, before leaving there was almost a misdirection. After the vote, he visited his father Jair under house arrest, saying that he had been ordered to hand over his passports but that it was an “unjustified” move because he had no intention of leaving Brazil. The news proves the opposite.
How did Bolsonaro leave Brazil? In a statement released on According to this reconstruction, the senator then boarded a private flight from the Baires Fly company headed to Ecuador and then continued his journey to the United States.
The troubles of Flavio Bolsonaro
Flavio Bolsonaro is the eldest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. He inherited the leadership of the conservative right after his father was declared ineligible and convicted of attempted coup d’état. His presidential campaign focused on the promise of amnesty for his father, a tough line against crime and a strong alignment with Donald Trump.
Flavio Bolsonaro is officially under investigation by the Supreme Court of Brazil in two investigations. He is accused of corruption, money laundering and currency evasion, as part of the investigation into the financing of the film dedicated to his father Jair Bolsonaro. Then he is also investigated in the Willer Tomaz case: here the accusation is suspected money laundering and alleged financial irregularities linked to betting platforms.
“Shameful escape”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called Bolsonaro’s departure to the United States “shameful”. “He could have stayed and proved that the charges against him are not true,” Lula said, recalling that he himself had handed over his passports when asked to do so.
Then the thrust: “This citizen, the most lying person I have ever seen in my life, has no respect for the truth. This act is shameful.”
“The Bolsonaros are good people”
Trump has always supported the Bolsonaro dynasty and it continues, as we have seen, even now. Answering some questions from journalists, the tycoon defined the Bolsonaros as “good people” and added: “The elections were really strange and I judged them terrible; their arrival in the US would be fine with me”.