Operation with support from Trump and Milei takes Flávio Bolsonaro from Brazil to Florida, according to WSJ
According to the Wall Street Journal, the departure had an Italian passport, an Argentine escort and entry into the USA for humanitarian reasons, without a prior visa.
BY THE X-TRADER NEWS NEWSROOM · REPORTING FROM GAZETA DO POVO · 3 MIN
Flávio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in the United States after an operation that, according to the Wall Street Journal, had the help of allies of President Donald Trump and the government of Javier Milei, in Argentina. The report was reported by Gazeta do Povo and describes how the group left Brazil via the border with Argentina and arrived in Florida on Wednesday morning (28).
The background is judicial. After the election on October 25, Minister Alexandre de Moraes, from the STF, ordered the surrender of Flávio's passports and prohibited him from leaving the country. According to Gazeta do Povo, based on the WSJ, the operation began on Monday (26), already after this decision.
The group was small and included Trump ally Jason Miller. Eduardo Bolsonaro, who has been in the United States since 2025, collaborated with the operation. On Monday night, cars carrying Flávio left his house in Brasília in different directions. On Tuesday (27), allies announced that he was already in Florida, but he was still in Brazil.
According to sources cited by the newspaper, Trump personally approved the family's entry on Tuesday, and Marco Rubio arranged the visas. At 10:50 pm on the same day, Flávio and his family crossed the Tancredo Neves Bridge towards Puerto Iguazú, according to migration authorities from the Milei government. Santiago Caputo, Milei's advisor, accompanied the PSA escort to the airport and maintained contact with Eduardo Bolsonaro.
In the early hours of Wednesday (28), at 00:21, a Baires Fly Gulfstream G400 jet took off from Puerto Iguazú to Guayaquil, Ecuador, to refuel. The flight plan listed Flávio with an Italian passport. The aircraft carried two pilots and a flight attendant and landed in Miami-Opa Locka at around 9:30 am local time, which is equivalent to 10:30 am in Brasília.
According to InfoMoney, entry into the USA was registered for humanitarian reasons and without a prior visa. The registration, issued on October 28, 2026, allows stay until October 27, 2027. The State Department had indicated that it would issue visas to Flávio and his family, but the entry registration suggests that this had not yet occurred. A lawyer linked to Trump stated that Rubio engineered the departure and that Flávio will lead the opposition to Lula from the United States.
What changes for the investor
Episodes of this type affect Brazil's political risk premium. The facts discovered so far deal with a migratory operation and a decision by the STF, and do not mention any impact on balance sheets or economic policy. Still, investors tend to follow three points: the tension between the Brazilian Judiciary and foreign governments, the electoral dispute with a name that allies point to as leader of the opposition outside the country and the possible reaction of the dollar, future interest rates and the stock market with each new chapter. None of this indicates price direction, and the reading depends on institutional developments. It is worth observing whether the case progresses to formal decisions or whether it remains restricted to the political field.
Automatically translated from Portuguese.
