Flavio Bolsonaro flees to U.S. after losing Brazil election, sources say
Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro has left the country for the U.S. after having lost Sunday’s presidential election and refused to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said.
The State Department will issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family and allow them entry into the U.S., a senior State Department official confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday afternoon.
Bolsonaro’s lawyer also declined to comment.
Bolsonaro was favored to win Sunday’s presidential election but ended up losing in a shock result to leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. On Monday, he was given 24 hours to
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