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NewsFlávio Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the United States
Flávio Bolsonaro has left Brazil for the United States. He left two days after his defeat in the presidential runoff. The winner of that runoff was incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The departure happened despite orders that he surrender his passports.
Brazilian police had ordered him to surrender his passports. Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes had barred him from leaving Brazil. Those steps followed the election loss. He departed anyway.
The government then canceled his passports. The United States granted visas to him and to his family. The cancellation is a Brazilian government step. The visas are a United States step.
Moraes is the justice named with the travel bar. The police order was to surrender the passports. The runoff loss is the political background. Lula da Silva is the president who defeated him.
The sequence is a court bar, a police surrender order, a departure, a passport cancellation, and United States visas. The family is included in the visa grant. The person traveling is Flávio Bolsonaro. The destination reported is the United States.
The recorded travel fact is that he left Brazil. The recorded legal facts are the bar, the surrender order, and the later cancellation. The recorded United States fact is the visas for him and his family. The recorded electoral fact is the loss to Lula da Silva two days earlier.