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Banderas de Estados Unidos y Brasil junto a un avión oficial en una base aérea al atardecer
Imagen alusiva de las banderas de Estados Unidos y Brasil en una base aérea, generada para ilustrar el caso Bolsonaro. · EPM

Trump approves Flavio Bolsonaro coming to the US

Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would approve of Senator Flavio Bolsonaro coming to the United States, after a State Department official announced entry…

--- The context --- Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States after losing Sunday presidential election to leftist incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whom he has yet to concede to. His departure combines a migration decision announced from Washington with a Brazilian court order that the senator himself refused to comply with before leaving. --- The facts --- A senior State Department official said entry visas would be granted to Bolsonaro and his family, as reported on Tuesday. The senator left Brazil after refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to surrender his passports. President Donald Trump addressed the matter on Wednesday while speaking to reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, on his return from a campaign trip to Texas. He said he would approve of Bolsonaro coming and added that he had heard the senator was in Argentina. --- The positions --- Trump said he considers the Bolsonaros fine people, that he knows them both, Lula and Flavio a little bit, and that he knows the father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, very well. He maintained that he did not take sides, although he described the election as very strange and terrible and noted that it had gotten bad reviews. On the father, he indicated that he was treated really badly, while clarifying that he was not involved. --- What remains unknown --- The available information does not detail the type of visa the family would receive, the timing of any entry, or the legal situation the senator will face after disobeying the passport surrender order. Nor is there a formal response from Brazilian authorities. --- Unanswered questions --- Will the entry of Bolsonaro and his family be formalized with the visas announced by the State Department official? What consequences will the refusal to surrender the passports ordered by the Supreme Court have in Brazil? Will the senator finally concede the electoral result of the previous Sunday? --- EPM analysis --- The episode puts two planes in tension that should not be confused. On one side is the United States power to decide entries into its territory through visas, and on the other is the obligation of an elected official to comply with a standing order from his own Supreme Court, regardless of his political disagreement with the electoral outcome already produced in Brazil. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the key to this case lies not only in the political affinity expressed by Trump, but in preserving the distinction between a sovereign migration decision and the respect owed to a court order in force in Brazil, because confusing the two planes weakens the rule of law, fuels the dispute over an election already decided at the ballot box and leaves unanswered the situation of a senator who left without surrendering his passports or conceding to the incumbent president.
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