# Brazil: Flavio Bolsonaro leaves Argentina amid alleged bid for US asylum after election defeat

https://mins.news/en/video/119005

- France 24 English, 2026-10-28 11:43 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJYGFgDRhYs

> After losing Brazil’s runoff election on Sunday to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Flavio Bolsonaro flew to Ecuador after arriving in Argentina on Tuesday night, October 27. He is expected to reach Miami; the US State Department said it would issue visas to him and his family.

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