Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro flees to the United States after missing passport deadline

Brazilian media report that Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has fled the country and is flying to the United States after losing the presidential election to Lula. He missed a Tuesday deadline to hand over his passport, and the reports, which cite allies, have not been officially confirmed. The Brazilian news site Metrópoles, citing family sources, said Bolsonaro would land in Florida and planned to seek political asylum, with the Trump administration informed. Other outlets reported he left with his wife and daughters, possibly via Argentina, though no record of him passing through a regular immigration checkpoint exists. Bolsonaro's passport was canceled by a Supreme Court justice as part of a criminal case, and he failed to surrender it by the Tuesday deadline. His brother Eduardo, in U.S. exile, had urged him to leave, while their father, former president Jair Bolsonaro, remains under house arrest for an alleged coup attempt.