Brazil summons Argentine diplomat over Bolsonaro’s route to US

Brazil has summoned an Argentine diplomat to explain how Flávio Bolsonaro travelled through Argentina to the United States, despite a Brazilian order barring him from leaving the country, according to a report by ANP and AFP carried by Nieuws.nl.

Bolsonaro, who lost Brazil’s presidential election, was under criminal investigation and had been ordered to surrender his passports. He crossed by land into Argentina near Puerto Iguazú, where Argentine authorities said he had entered with valid travel documents. He then boarded a private plane that was expected to take him to Miami via Ecuador.

It remains unclear which passport Bolsonaro used. Nieuws.nl reported that he held a diplomatic passport as a senator, but it was declared invalid after he missed the deadline to hand it in. International media have reported that he may have travelled on an Italian passport, which he has through his Italian ancestry.