Flavio Bolsonaro Flees to Florida as US Grants Visas

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has fled Brazil for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election, with the U.S. State Department set to grant him and his family entry visas, according to three sources cited by Reuters on Tuesday. Bolsonaro, who has not conceded defeat to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left after refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports amid a money laundering investigation, which he denies. His exact location is unknown, though a family source said he landed in Florida. The departure threatens to deepen divisions between the Americas' two most populous nations, with Lula accusing Washington of collaborating with the Bolsonaro family. Flavio's father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, also fled to the U.S. after his 2022 loss and was later sentenced to 27 years for coup plotting.