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Rubio says Trump administration did not help Bolsonaro flee Brazil to US
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In Short: The Daily Gazette and Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported that Bolsonaro claimed to be the true “leader” of Brazil and said he left the country because he was a victim of “persecution”.
Al Jazeera and The Daily Gazette reported that Bolsonaro arrived in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, a day after the US Department of State said he and his family would be granted US visas.
According to Al Jazeera, Rubio told reporters in Atlanta, Georgia, that the US government was not involved in Bolsonaro's move.
Trump voiced sympathy for Bolsonaro and said he could stay in the US indefinitely.
Reuters, cited by Al Jazeera, reported that Bolsonaro was admitted to the US under humanitarian parole, a status that typically lasts for one year.
Bolsonaro is under investigation in Brazil for alleged corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion.
Rubio said the US government was not directly involved in Bolsonaro’s arrangements to leave Brazil after his election loss.
Bolsonaro left Brazil via Argentina and Ecuador to reach Miami.
Bolsonaro refused to concede the Brazilian election and called the results fraudulent without providing evidence.
Rubio said he had seen Brazil’s foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, in Atlanta on Friday and Saturday and expected to see Brazilian officials again in November in France.
Rubio told reporters in Atlanta that the US government was not involved in Bolsonaro's move.
Bolsonaro began his journey to the US via Argentina and Ecuador.
Bolsonaro was ordered to surrender his passport because police deemed him a flight risk.
Background
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration did not assist Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro in fleeing to the US.
What's confirmed
- Bolsonaro arrived in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, a day after the US Department of State said Bolsonaro and his family would be granted US visas after his October 25 election loss, which bucked a trend of conservative electoral wins in Latin America.
- “We didn’t facilitate anything,” Rubio told reporters on Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia, where diplomats from the Group of 20 largest world economies were gathered.
- Since arriving in the US, he has claimed to be the true “leader” of Brazil and said he left the country because he was a victim of “persecution”.
- Bolsonaro is under investigation in Brazil for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, and before leaving, he had been ordered to surrender his passport because police deemed him a flight risk.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Donald Trump’s administration did not help Brazil’s defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro flee the country for the United States after losing a run-off to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
- Rubio also said he had seen Brazil’s foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, in Atlanta on Friday and Saturday and he expected to see Brazilian officials again in November in France during a foreign ministers meeting.
- Bolsonaro has refused to concede the Brazilian election and called the results fraudulent without providing evidence.
- ATLANTA: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that Washington was not directly involved in Flavio Bolsonaro’s arrangements to leave Brazil after his election loss.
- Bolsonaro left Brazil via Argentina and Ecuador to reach Miami. 13 outlets told this the same way.
- Rubio told reporters in Atlanta that the U.S. government was not involved in Bolsonaro's move.
- Fl á vio Bolsonaro has fled to the United States after losing Brazil’s presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil on Sunday, according to multiple outlets.
- ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday that the Trump administration did not facilitate defeated presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro’s departure to the U.S. after he left Brazil following his election defeat to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
What's still developing
- “We had word that he had arrived in the United States. He had previously held a visa, and the president made a decision to allow him to enter the country,” Rubio said.
- After Bolsonaro’s run-off loss, he fled Brazil to the US via Argentina and Ecuador on a journey that some US media outlets reported was partly arranged with the help of Jason Miller, a White House official.
- Trump says defeated presidential candidate, who faces investigation in Brazil, can stay in the US ‘as long as he wants’.
- Authorities there are investigating whether he had help.
- By SHI GUANG in New York | China Daily | Updated: 2026-10-27 09:06 Brazilians re-elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday, handing him 51.78 percent of the votes, compared to 48.22 percent for challenger Flavio Bolsonaro.
- The election ended with Lula receiving 51.79% of votes compared with Bolsonaro's 48.21%, according to Brazil's electoral authorities.
- Brazil stocks are plunging as Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva unexpectedly won re-election in Sunday's runoff vote vs. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.
- Contrary to every poll, the president finished the first round 2.2 million votes behind Flávio Bolsonaro – and, more significantly, 3.4 million votes below his total four years ago, when the machinery of the state was working against him and in favor of his opponent.
- Lula said Wednesday he would not attend a debate scheduled to include Bolsonaro and two other candidates.
- He instead has found himself in a runoff with Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whose stronger-than-expected performance in a first round of voting upended predictions and turned one of Latin America’s most prominent left-wing leaders into the election’s underdog.
- Another member of Brazil's Bolsonaro family has found haven from possible prosecution by fleeing to the U.S., where they have an ally in President Trump.
- The right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro has won the first round of Brazil's presidential election, beating the incumbent left-wing President Lula da Silva, but falling short of the outright majority needed to win.
Sources
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