Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil for Ecuador via Argentina

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Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, who lost the election, has fled Brazil and is heading to Ecuador via Argentina, the Argentine government confirmed on October 28. Bolsonaro entered Argentina on the night of October 27 and boarded a private aircraft to Guayaquil, Ecuador, with his wife and two daughters, despite a court order prohibiting his departure. The plane took off from Puerto Iguazu early on October 28. Earlier reports claimed Bolsonaro had arrived in the US, and Washington had issued visas for him and his family. The Brazilian Supreme Court had ordered him to surrender his passport amid corruption and money laundering investigations, though he also holds Italian citizenship.


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