How Trump’s Latin American allies helped Flávio Bolsonaro flee Brazil
The governments of Argentina and Ecuador collaborated to get the far-right candidate out of the country, bypassing Brazilian legislation. A conservative bloc has emerged in the region that is willing to act according to the US president’s logic
The flight of far-right Brazilian politician Flávio Bolsonaro has exposed covert support from the Donald Trump administration and a network of alliances among conservative governments on the continent, encouraged by Washington, that collaborated to enable his escape. Bolsonaro’s departure for Miami — just one day after insisting he would lead the opposition to the newly re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — demonstrates the existence of a Latin American bloc not only ideologically aligned with Trump but willing to act according to his logic, disregarding international treaties, several analysts said.