BrasíliaFlávio Bolsonaro left Brazil through no regular border post, a police official said.
The US will issue visas to him and his family, an administration official said.
The Supreme Court ordered his passports surrendered in a money-laundering probe he calls persecution, and police cancelled them Tuesday.
“Brazil is their second nation, the US is their first,” said President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Justice Flávio Dino has ordered police to trace foreign funding of his campaign.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 2200+ reports worldwide · These outlets told this story differently.
- New York Post
- reports the US visa grant via an administration official and notes Bolsonaro entered the US without using a regular migration point
- Hindustan Times leans critical
- centers Lula's 'shameful' remark and his claim that Brazil is the Bolsonaros' second nation, the US their first
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- links the visa grant to the Supreme Court passport order and the 4.4 million vote margin, framing the flight as a rejection of the result
- TRT World leans critical
- stresses Bolsonaro's political isolation, noting his party and allies accepted the result and he faces loss of parliamentary immunity
- Agência Pública leans critical
- reports the family's daughters missing school as evidence of a possible departure, citing a Brasília school source who couldn't confirm it
Sources: New York Post, Agência Pública, Hindustan Times, Al Jazeera Online, TRT World