Bolsonaro requests a tourist visa for six months to continue in the United States

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Bolsonaro supporters, in front of the house where the former president is staying in Reunin (Florida) CRISTOBAL HERRERA-ULASHKEVICH | EFE

He had ensured that he would return to Brazil at the end of January

01 feb 2023 . Updated at 05:00 h.

Jair Bolsonaro He had said that he would return to Brazil at the end of January, and he even admitted to CNN that he was thinking of bringing his trip forward. Well, either the former president has thought better of it or mint. His lawyer announced yesterday that he had applied for tourist visa for six months to the USA., country where the far-right leader has been for two days before handing over his position to the leftist Lula da Silva, on January 1.

There is no forecast for his return. He will know when you do. It may be tomorrow, it may be in about six months, or he may never return, I don’t know, his son and senator, Flvio Bolsonaro, had said this Saturday, stressing that the former president is not afraid of the judicial investigations he is facing for, among other issues, having supposedly favored the assault on the headquarters of the three Brazilian powers, perpetrated by their most radical followers on January 8.

Bolsonaro’s lawyer did not specify what permission his client is in the US, but most of the press suggests that he would have a visa reserved for heads of state, which is barely a month old and would have expired, due to So this Monday.


Hence his lawyer’s request to obtain a tourist visa that would allow him to remain in the residence where he is staying in Orlando, a house in a residential neighborhood, with no fence separating it from the street, lent by a mixed martial arts fighter. .

The lawyer will not have it easy. A group of 42 Democratic Party lawmakers called for three weeks ago President Joe Biden to cancel the permit of Bolsonaro’s stay.


We defeated a president, but we have not yet defeated fascism, Lula pointed out yesterday, who this Wednesday marks his first month after his return to power in the country.

It has not been an easy start. The leftist leader had to face widespread chaos due to street protests in favor of Bolsonaro, deactivated after the assault on the seats of power.


He has also been criticized for his ambiguous economic policy, without decreeing a rise in the minimum wage but, at the same time, criticizing the independence of the Brazilian Central Bank and the inflation targets, positions that created concern in the markets.

Lula has also faced a humanitarian crisis in the Amazon, which affects the Yanomami indigenous people, in critical health conditions due to mercury contamination of the waters of their communities after the establishment of illegal gold mines.


With his motto Brazil is back, in international politics he restored relations with Venezuela, re-entered his country in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) and refused this week, before the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to send ammunition to Ukraine. , assuring that Brazil is a country of peace and showing its willingness to talk with China to help seek an end to the war.




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