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.

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[–] 7 points 7 hours ago*

This guy is such a World Class Hypocrite that he both said "I'm not running away from Brasil" AND "I would be the victim of a witch hunt if I stayed in Brasil".

Another "You know he's lying by his mouth being open" type.

By the way, Brasil needs to drop the whole "Immunity for Parliamentarians" third world crap - this guy has been avoiding prosecution for several crimes for years because he was a member of the Brasilian version of Parliament (which he is not anymore, hence a Court ordering his passport confiscated and him running away to the US).

That Immunity trick keeps mafiosi far-right crime families from having to pay for their crimes as long as they go into politics and is probably what's seriously distorting the Brasilian political landscape (in a better country a guy like Lula would've retired by now - in fact, he tried and that ended with Bolsonaro senior elected as President, which is why he came back and was a Presidential candidate in the following elections)

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