One Theory for Why Bolsonaro Is in Florida

Jan 10 2023 by The Daily Beast

 
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While hordes of Jair Bolsonaro supporters carried out an assault on their government on Sunday in an eerily similar fashion to Jan. 6, the former Brazilian president was in Florida.

But he’s not there on vacation to decompress from, or protest, his election loss to the country’s new president, Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva, according Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.

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