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

How Trump’s Latin American allies helped Flávio Bolsonaro flee Brazil

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.

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