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Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after fleeing Brazil post-election loss
Defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro landed in Miami on Wednesday after fleeing his home country following Sunday's runoff election loss to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.[7, 28, 46] A senior State Department official told ABC News and CBS News that the U.S. would issue visas to Bolsonaro, a Brazilian senator, and his family.[16, 19] He traveled from Brazil through Argentina and Ecuador before arriving at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, according to reports piecing together his route.[25, 32, 52]
Brazilian authorities had ordered him to surrender his passport amid multiple criminal investigations, including alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, and he left the country anyway.[5, 12, 21 +1] President Donald Trump said he approved of Bolsonaro coming to the U.S., telling reporters the election was "very strange" and that Bolsonaro and his family were "fine people."[22, 29]
The Washington Examiner reported that hours after landing, Bolsonaro declared himself the "true elected president of Brazil."[47] The Intercept reported that Brazil's Supreme Court had tried to strip Bolsonaro's passport before the Trump administration granted him a visa.[8]
Why it matters The U.S. decision to shelter Bolsonaro poses a fresh irritant to relations between the two countries' governments.[17]
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Of the 37 rated outlets that covered it, 12 are left of center (3 of them in the Left group), 12 are center and 13 are right of center (9 of them in the Right group). 6 more are not rated.
- Left: Truthout (−2.23), Mother Jones (−1.71), The Real News Network (−1.68).
- Leans left: Salon (−1.20), AlterNet (−1.16), The New Republic (−1.09), HuffPost (−1.06), The Intercept (−0.83), MS NOW (−0.76), The New York Times (−0.70), The Guardian (−0.70), NPR (−0.68).
- Center: NBC News (−0.49), PBS NewsHour (−0.48), Newsweek (−0.30), Fortune (−0.25), Foreign Policy (−0.20), ABC News (−0.19), International Business Times (−0.14), CBS News (−0.14), Yahoo News (+0.07), Bloomberg (+0.08), The Hill (+0.10), UPI (+0.17).
- Leans right: The Wall Street Journal (+0.63), New York Post (+0.64), RealClearPolitics (+0.87), The American Conservative (+1.06).
- Right: The Washington Times (+1.27), Washington Examiner (+1.34), Fox News (+1.52), Blaze Media (+1.71), Breitbart (+2.03), The Daily Wire (+2.07), One America News Network (+2.69), Conservative Review (+2.76), The Right Scoop (+3.11).
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