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Montevideo, November 9th 2026 - 15:03 UTC

Tag: flavio Bolsonaro

  • Thursday, October 29th 2026 - 01:30 UTC

    Bolsonaro’s exit via Argentina further strains relations between Milei and Lula

    Presidential spokesman Adrián Ravier said the government had “taken note of the result” of the Brazilian election but ruled out an official statement

    Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s transit through Argentina, after he left Brazil despite a court ban and flew to Miami from Puerto Iguazú following his election defeat, has opened a new front in the strained relationship between the governments of Javier Milei and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, while the Casa Rosada maintains its refusal to congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election.

  • Thursday, October 29th 2026 - 01:17 UTC

    “True president”, then “leader”: Bolsonaro’s letter from the United States

    In the letter, Bolsonaro says he did not flee but refused to submit to “political persecution” and judicial harassment

    Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who arrived in Miami on Wednesday after leaving Brazil despite a court ban, released a letter in which he presented himself as “the true president-elect of Brazil”, alleged “electoral fraud” without evidence and thanked Argentine President Javier Milei for his “courage”. About 30 minutes later the text was changed and Bolsonaro described himself instead as Brazil’s “leader”.

  • Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 14:50 UTC

    Argentina confirms Bolsonaro crossed via Iguazú before flying to Miami

    The migration agency’s statement does not say who organised the journey or mention any government involvement

    Argentina’s government confirmed that Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, defeated in Sunday’s presidential runoff and barred by a court from leaving Brazil, entered Argentina at Puerto Iguazú with his family before flying to the United States on a private plane. Bolsonaro landed on Wednesday morning at Opa-locka Executive Airport in Miami.

  • Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 09:17 UTC

    Flávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil despite a court ban and the US will grant him a visa

    A State Department official confirmed that visas would be issued for the senator and his family

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, defeated on Sunday by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the presidential runoff, left Brazil with his wife and two daughters despite a Supreme Federal Court order barring him from leaving the country, and the US State Department confirmed it will grant them visas. According to the newspaper O Globo, he arrived in Miami on Tuesday night.

  • Wednesday, October 28th 2026 - 03:20 UTC

    Argentina: opposition asks Milei to clarify whether Bolsonaro left Brazil through the country

    Milei backed Bolsonaro during the campaign and repeatedly called Lula a “thief” and a “jailbird”

    Argentine opposition lawmakers on Tuesday demanded that Javier Milei’s government report whether Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who left Brazil despite a court ban and travelled to the United States after his election defeat, crossed through Argentine territory. The National Migration Directorate said it has no record of the senator entering the country.

  • Tuesday, October 27th 2026 - 16:32 UTC

    Brazil investigates whether Flávio Bolsonaro left the country via Argentina after his defeat

    Judge Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro, who is under investigation by the court, to surrender his ordinary and diplomatic passports within 24 hours and barred him from leaving the country

    Brazil’s Federal Police are checking with Argentine authorities whether Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential runoff, left the country across the Argentine border, after he failed to hand over his passports within the deadline set by the Supreme Federal Court. His campaign and the Argentine government deny that he has left Brazil.

  • Monday, October 26th 2026 - 13:39 UTC

    A judge appointed by Jair Bolsonaro rejects his son’s case for annulling the election

    “Even before all these circumstances, we took all the necessary measures and were entirely successful. I repeat: there was no change resulting from the court ruling,” Nunes Marques said

    The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, Kassio Nunes Marques, who was appointed to the Supreme Federal Court by former president Jair Bolsonaro in 2020, said on Monday that the extension of voting hours did not change the result of the runoff won by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president’s son, had cited the extension in refusing to recognise his defeat and calling for the election to be annulled.

  • Monday, October 26th 2026 - 09:01 UTC

    Lula wins Brazil’s presidency for a fourth time with 51.8% of the vote

    Lula is the first candidate to win the presidency after coming second in the first round since Brazil returned to direct presidential elections in 1989

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won Sunday’s presidential runoff with 51.78% of valid votes against 48.22% for Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, according to the Superior Electoral Court, with 99.97% of the vote counted. Lula, 80, will govern the country for a fourth time, from 2027 to 2030, after overturning his first-round deficit.

  • Monday, October 26th 2026 - 04:26 UTC

    Bolsonaro refuses to recognise Lula’s victory and says he will seek to annul the election

    “It is impossible to recognise the result of the election in the context in which these things happened. We are going to ask for these elections to be annulled,” Bolsonaro said, taking no questions

    Senator Flávio Bolsonaro announced on Sunday night that he does not recognise President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s presidential runoff and will seek to have it annulled, arguing that the extension of voting hours ordered by a Supreme Federal Court judge was irregular. Lula won with 51.78% of valid votes against 48.22%, a margin of some 4.4 million votes.

  • Sunday, October 25th 2026 - 07:02 UTC

    Brazil chooses between Lula and Bolsonaro in its tightest runoff in recent history

    Bolsonaro won the first round on October 4 with 47.03% of the vote against Lula’s 45.16%, a result that confounded the polls

    Nearly 160 million Brazilians are called to vote on Sunday in the presidential runoff, in which President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, seeks a fourth term against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro. The two arrive level: the latest Datafolha poll gives each 50% of valid votes.

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