It seems Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right former president of Brazil, has coped with his election loss by escaping to Florida.
around the vote-counting in Brazil, said he suspected hackers tried to steal the 2018 election from him, and spread false claims of fraud—all of which has been amplified by conservative media and far-right lawmakers in the country. Shortly before decamping to Orlando, Florida, last month, on the second-to-last day of his term, Bolsonaro did pay lip service to Brazil’s electoral norms,, “Either we live in a democracy or we don’t. Nobody wants an adventure.
His supporters, however, saw things differently as they embarked on the most dramatic anti-democratic adventure since a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol building two years ago. In the months leading up to Sunday’s riot, Bolsonaro supporters set up protest camps outside the army’s headquarters in Brasília and at army bases across the county—a scene meant to persuade the military to reinstate Bolsonaro.
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