Argentine lawmaker Marcela Pagano filed a criminal complaint against officials of the Milei administration to investigate how Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro crossed into Argentina and departed for United States despite a judicial ban on leaving Brazil.

The complaint was presented before the Federal Court in Puerto Iguazu, in Misiones province. It seeks to establish the circumstances of Bolsonaro’s entry into Argentina and his later departure toward United States.

The far-right senator, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, lost the presidential run-off to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday. He faces criminal cases in Brazil for corruption and money laundering, and Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes had prohibited him from leaving the country.

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Pagano framed the matter in stark terms. “The justice system has to establish who organized Bolsonaro’s passage through our territory toward U.S. and whether Argentine officials facilitated it. A government cannot become the escape route for someone who is barred from leaving his country by court order”, she said.

The reconstruction presented to the court traces the route in detail. The Brazilian Senator crossed the international border between Foz do Iguazu and Puerto Iguazu through the Tancredo Neves crossing at 10.50 P.M. local time on Tuesday.

Forty minutes after entering Argentine soil, Flávvio Bolsonaro and his family boarded a private Gulfstream G400 jet at Iguazu International Airport. The aircraft belongs to the firm Baires Fly and had been positioned there since Monday.

A Flight Around Brazil

The jet traced a path through the airspace of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru. It made a technical stop in Guayaquil, Ecuador, before landing Wednesday in Miami, avoiding Brazilian airspace at every stage.

Pagano detailed that Flávio Bolsonaro reached the air terminal under escort from an Airport Security Police patrol car. That force answers to the Security Ministry, which falls under the federal Executive.

The National Directorate of Migration initially denied on Tuesday that the conservative leader was present or had any flight plans. Yet the government of Javier Milei officially acknowledged his passage at 2.00 A.M. Wednesday, when the aircraft was already airborne.

The complaint demands clarification of another element, the presence in Misiones of Santiago Caputo, political strategist and chief advisor to the Argentine presidency. Caputo reportedly arrived in the province earlier in the week aboard the same private plane.

Text reads: “The National Directorate of Migration reports that at 10:50 P.M. on October 27, entered through the border crossing of Tancredo Neves International Bridge in the province of Misiones, citizens Flávio Nantes Bolsonaro, Fernanda Antunes Figueira Bolsonaro, Carolina Figueira Bolsonaro and Luiza Figueira Bolsonaro, who did so with skilled travel documentation without any legal impediment to entry into the country, also the transits were registered by the enforcement authority without incidents. For its part, at 11:30 P.M., the incoming party boarded a private flight dispatched by the company Baires Fly S.A to the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, as reported in the flight plan.”

The written filing asks the court to investigate alleged crimes of illegal trafficking of persons, facilitation of illegal stay, abuse of authority, violation of public official’s duties, and cover-up. It requests urgent evidence measures including camera footage from the border bridge, aeronautical records, and the Airport Security Police duty logs.

The political fallout reached the legislature quickly. Argentine Congressman and former Defense Minister Agustin Rossi formalized a request to summon the Chief of Cabinet, Diego Santilli, to answer before Parliament.

The sequence raises the question at the heart of the complaint. A senator barred from leaving his country crossed a border, boarded a private jet, and flew to Miami without touching Brazilian airspace, all with a police escort on Argentine soil.

The government first denied any knowledge. It then confirmed the passage hours later, after the plane was gone. That gap between denial and confirmation sits at the center of the criminal filing.

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The denunciation now forces the federal justice system to determine whether officials in the Milei administration facilitated a fugitive’s exit. The demand in Congress puts the same question to the Cabinet’s Chief.

Brasilia, 28 oct (Prensa Latina) La Unión Nacional de Estudiantes de Brasil (UNE) reafirmó hoy su solidaridad con Cuba y exigió el levantamiento inmediato del bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero impuesto por Estados Unidos a la isla.

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Brasilia, 28 oct (Prensa Latina) Medios brasileños criticaron hoy la carta en la que el senador Flávio Bolsonaro se proclamó inicialmente presidente electo y después líder de Brasil, pese a su derrota electoral ante el mandatario Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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A Polícia Civil do Rio de Janeiro prendeu em flagrante, nesta quarta-feira (28), um homem suspeito de se passar por delegado para abastecer o carro sem pagar. A prisão ocorreu no Recreio dos Bandeirantes, na Zona Sudoeste do Rio.

Segundo as investigações, no dia 4 de setembro deste ano, Silvio Cesar Ferreira de Novaes Alves foi a um posto de combustível na Avenida das Américas. Na hora de efetuar o pagamento, ele desembarcou do veículo com um distintivo no peito e uma arma na cintura. Veja:

O suspeito se identificou como delegado e afirmou que havia esquecido a carteira na delegacia, mas que retornaria para quitar a dívida. Para dar mais credibilidade à versão, ele deixou um aparelho celular antigo como garantia de que voltaria ao estabelecimento.

Outras ocorrências

Após 18 dias sem o retorno do suspeito, o gerente do posto procurou as autoridades. Ao conversar com funcionários de outros estabelecimentos, ele descobriu que aquela teria sido a terceira vez que o homem utilizou a mesma estratégia para abastecer sem pagar.

Uma das outras ocorrências teria acontecido em 24 de agosto, em outro posto de combustível também localizado na Avenida das Américas. Já o terceiro caso teria ocorrido cerca de dois meses antes.

Porte de arma

A Polícia Civil também descobriu que o homem tinha autorização para manter a arma de fogo em casa ou no trabalho, mas o documento foi cassado em julho deste ano.

Diante dos fatos, os agentes realizaram uma ação para cumprir um mandado de busca e apreensão. Os agentes abordaram o suspeito no momento em que ele desembarcava do veículo.

Durante as buscas na residência, os policiais apreenderam três carregadores, 35 munições intactas, um distintivo de segurança privada e um coldre.

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Brasilia, 28 oct (Prensa Latina) El senador Flávio Bolsonaro modificó hoy una carta difundida desde Estados Unidos, en la que inicialmente se proclamó “verdadero presidente de Brasil”, para sustituir esa denominación por la de “líder de Brasil.

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Viena, 28 oct (Prensa Latina) El tenista ruso Daniil Medvédev, tercer cabeza de serie, siguió hoy con su accionar indetenible en el Abierto de Viena, tras doblegar al español Daniel Mérida en los octavos de final por 7-6 (7/5) y 6-1.

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Numa carta divulgada após a chegada aos Estados Unidos, Flávio Bolsonaro promete liderar a oposição a partir do estrangeiro. Acusa as autoridades brasileiras de fraude eleitoral, agradece o apoio de Donald Trump e Javier Milei e compara a sua situação à de figuras históricas que combateram regimes autoritários no exílio. "É uma forma de tentar legitimar uma fuga à justiça", considera o analista José Bourbon-Ribeiro

Numa carta divulgada após a chegada aos Estados Unidos, Flávio Bolsonaro promete liderar a oposição a partir do estrangeiro. Acusa as autoridades brasileiras de fraude eleitoral, agradece o apoio de Donald Trump e Javier Milei e compara a sua situação à de figuras históricas que combateram regimes autoritários no exílio. "É uma forma de tentar legitimar uma fuga à justiça", considera o analista José Bourbon-Ribeiro

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Depois de se declarar “presidente eleito” do Brasil após fugir para os Estados Unidos, o senador Flávio Bolsonaro recuou e postou versão alterada da carta em sua conta no X. Ele se declara como “líder do Brasil” na segunda versão do documento.

Flávio foi derrotado nas urnas por Lula (PT) no último domingo (25).

“Dirijo-me ao povo brasileiro e à comunidade internacional como o verdadeiro presidente eleito do Brasil”, afirmava na primeira versão da carta divulgada.

Segundo a carta, o senador anuncia que pretende liderar a oposição brasileira do exterior e volta a dizer, sem provas, que houve fraude na eleição de domingo, além de criticar o STF (Supremo Tribunal Federal) e agradecer ao presidente americano, Donald Trump, por acolher sua família no país.

Flávio desembarcou em Miami nesta quarta após deixar o Brasil pela fronteira com a Argentina e embarcar em um avião privado que fez escala no Equador. A viagem ocorreu depois de o ministro Alexandre de Moraes, do STF, determinar a entrega de seus passaportes no âmbito de uma investigação por suspeita de lavagem de dinheiro. O senador nega irregularidades.

A declaração golpista representa uma reviravolta, já que o senador afirmou, na véspera, que desistiria de anular a eleição e que não iria fugir do país.

No domingo, Lula venceu Flávio por uma diferença de 4,43 milhões de votos. Apesar de tanto a campanha do PT como a do PL ter pedido a prorrogação da votação por duas horas no dia da eleição, o candidato derrotado acabou questionando posteriormente a medida determinada pelo ministro do STF Cristiano Zanin, com aval posterior de Kassio Nunes Marques, presidente do TSE e indicado à Suprema Corte por Jair Bolsonaro.

Apenas 34 mil votos —0,03% do total— foram registrados após as 17h deste domingo (25).

No pronunciamento divulgado nesta quarta, Flávio afirma que não pretendia deixar o país, mas que decidiu viajar para escapar do que descreveu como uma perseguição política.

“Quero deixar claro: não fugi do Brasil, eu saí pelo Brasil, saí de um regime de exceção para poder ser o líder que o meu povo merece”, disse.

Ele confirmou que está acompanhado da família nos Estados Unidos e agradeceu a Trump e ao governo americano por oferecerem, segundo suas palavras, uma segurança jurídica que não existe mais no Brasil.

“Diante da instrumentalização política da Justiça no Brasil, trouxe minha família para os Estados Unidos, onde estamos em segurança”, afirmou.

O presidente americano disse na noite de terça-feira (27) que aprovaria a entrada do senador nos Estados Unidos, apesar de afirmar que não sabia seu paradeiro. Uma autoridade do Departamento de Estado confirmou à Folha que o governo americano concederia vistos a Flávio e seus familiares.

O candidato derrotado também agradeceu ao presidente argentino, Javier Milei, pela “coragem, senso de justiça e legalidade”. O senador passou pela Argentina antes de seguir para os Estados Unidos.

Ao contestar novamente o resultado das urnas, Flávio concentrou suas críticas na decisão judicial que permitiu a ampliação do horário de votação no segundo turno. Ele acusou o STF de interferir nas competências do TSE e afirmou que a mudança teria beneficiado Lula, contrariando os dados que apontam para uma diferença mínima na quantidade de votos.

“A atuação ilegítima e ilegal do ex-advogado do Lula permitiu que uma impossibilidade matemática se concretizasse e Lula acrescentasse mais de 10 milhões de votos do primeiro para o segundo turno”, declarou.

O crescimento do número de votos recebidos por um candidato entre dois turnos não configura, porém, nenhuma evidência de fraude eleitoral.

Flávio também acusou a campanha de Lula de abuso de poder político e econômico, além de utilização da máquina pública em favor da reeleição, e afirmou que essas supostas irregularidades justificariam a cassação da chapa Lula-Alckmin. Ele não apresentou provas das acusações no pronunciamento.

O senador dedicou parte do discurso a atacar o Judiciário, que acusou de atuar para silenciar a oposição. Sem citar nominalmente Alexandre de Moraes, fez referências ao magistrado e afirmou que as medidas judiciais adotadas contra ele fazem parte de um suposto plano de perseguição política.

“Para deixar claro, não existe nenhum mandado de prisão contra mim, porque eu não cometi nenhum crime. O que existe é uma caça às bruxas politicamente motivada”, afirmou.

Flávio disse acreditar que a apreensão de seus passaportes seria apenas o primeiro passo de uma sequência de medidas que poderia incluir tornozeleira eletrônica, prisão domiciliar e condenação judicial.

A decisão de Moraes determinou a entrega dos documentos em uma investigação que envolve a relação do senador com o advogado Willer Tomaz. A medida não equivale a uma ordem de prisão.

Ao justificar sua decisão de permanecer fora do Brasil, Flávio estabeleceu paralelos com personalidades históricas e líderes políticos que atuaram no exílio, entre eles Rui Barbosa, Charles de Gaulle, José Martí e os opositores venezuelanos Juan Guaidó e Edmundo González.

O senador também afirmou que pretende assumir a liderança da oposição brasileira a partir dos Estados Unidos e fez um apelo direto a parlamentares e governadores aliados, com menção especial ao senador Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), a quem chamou de seu candidato à presidência do Senado.

“Aos senadores, deputados e governadores que ajudei a eleger, e em especial ao meu candidato à presidência do Senado, Rogério Marinho: sei que hoje vocês não têm a liberdade necessária para o pleno exercício da atividade política. Por isso, liderarei a oposição daqui. Direi o que vocês, aí, não podem dizer, e assumirei os riscos que vocês não podem correr”, afirmou.

O discurso indica que Flávio pretende manter uma atuação política ativa mesmo fora do território brasileiro, com pronunciamentos regulares e articulação de aliados.

“Nos próximos dias, vou me dirigir regularmente ao povo brasileiro, e apresentaremos uma estratégia para mobilizar a oposição e o imenso apoio popular que temos, por todos os meios pacíficos e legítimos”, disse.

O senador não detalhou quais seriam as medidas dessa estratégia nem esclareceu se pretende solicitar asilo político aos Estados Unidos. Também não estabeleceu uma previsão de retorno ao Brasil.

No encerramento, afirmou que sua saída do país não representa o fim de sua atuação política.

“Saí do Brasil, mas não abandonei os brasileiros. Esta luta não terminou no dia 25 de outubro. Ela só termina quando o Brasil voltar a ser um país livre.”

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• Albertsons will not provide health coverage for employees' spouses who can get insurance elsewhere.
• The company says the move is intended to manage rising costs, which it expects to increase 9.5%.
• In August, Disney also pulled back on benefits it will provide for workers' families.

Albertsons is curbing health care benefits for employees due to rising healthcare costs.

Starting next year, the grocery giant will no longer offer medical insurance plans to employees' spouses and domestic partners who have jobs that provide such coverage. The grocery giant detailed the change in an open enrollment guide posted to its website.

Albertsons said it expects its healthcare costs to increase 9.5% next year due to inflation, higher prescription drug costs, provider consolidation, and shortages in the healthcare workforce.

"Like employers across the country, Albertsons Companies continues to navigate rising health care costs while working to provide associates with access to quality, competitive benefits," a spokesperson said in a statement to Business Insider.

The spokesperson also said spouses and partners who don't have access to employer-based coverage will remain eligible for coverage on applicable health plans.

Other changes this year include higher weekly paycheck contributions from employees, the elimination of two network plans, along with higher deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums for some other plans.

Large companies Disney, Starbucks, and Deloitte have also introduced cost-saving changes to their benefits packages for 2027. Disney is also dropping coverage for partners and spouses who can get insurance from their own jobs.

"We've seen employers reducing their contribution toward the spouse's coverage, but not eliminating the coverage option for those people," Capitol Benefits CEO Joshua Lavine told Business Insider in August, regarding Disney's decision.

Brasilia, 28 oct (Prensa Latina) El senador Flávio Bolsonaro se autoproclamó hoy “verdadero presidente electo” de Brasil en una carta difundida desde Estados Unidos y calificada como golpista por medios de prensa del gigante sudamericano.

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Flávio Bolsonaro divulgou esta quarta-feira, 28 de outubro, uma carta em que declara ser o “Presidente eleito” do Brasil. No texto, acusa as autoridades brasileiras de perseguição política e de fraude eleitoral, sem, no entanto, apresentar quaisquer provas. Leia aqui, na íntegra, a carta.

On October 25, Brazil’s three-time and current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, surprised the entire world by overcoming an electoral setback in the first round (in which he was defeated by the far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro) and securing victory and the presidential seat in Brasília.

Lula, the legendary union leader during the dictatorship, secured 51.79%, equivalent to 64,256,232 votes, while Bolsonaro (son of the detained former president Jair Bolsonaro) received 48.21%, or 59,826,041 votes.

What is truly surprising about Bolsonaro’s defeat (given that most pollsters had predicted a very likely victory for him) is the enormous number of votes Lula managed to gain during the three weeks between the first and second rounds of voting. In that first round, Bolsonaro took first place with 48.21% (more than 56 million votes), and Lula came in second with 45.15% (just under 54 million votes).

Many believed that the nearly 9 million votes obtained by all the other candidates combined in the first round would be distributed in a way more favorable to Bolsonaro, since most of those votes were cast for right-wing and center-right candidates. This seemed even more evident after many of the leaders of those parties endorsed Bolsonaro.

Added to this question was the high probability that, in a society highly polarized between the two candidates, many voters who either cast blank or invalid ballots or abstained from voting in the first round would support one of the two candidates.

Indeed, both of these circumstances played out. According to available data, more than 14 million Brazilians who had voted for other candidates, cast invalid ballots, or abstained from voting participated in the runoff, supporting either Lula or Bolsonaro.

And this is precisely the key factor in understanding Lula’s victory. Assuming that very few voters would have switched their support from Lula to Bolsonaro or vice versa, it is important to note that of those 14 million votes that were redistributed, Lula managed to secure 10.37 million more votes than he received in the first round, while Bolsonaro managed to gain just under 4 million votes. This was enough for Lula not only to close the gap against his opponent but also to surpass him by a comfortable margin.

What happened in Brazil?

Faced with this surprising turn of events, hundreds of analysts in Latin America and around the world have rushed to present countless charts, hypotheses, and analyses in an effort to fully understand the reasons behind this victory. And the reasons have to do not only with the clearly impressive comeback by Lula’s Workers’ Party and its allies, but also with the fact that he appears to have put a halt to a seemingly unstoppable string of victories by the far right in Latin America.

Given this, the question seems clear: How did Lula manage to convince such a staggering number of people to vote for him in the runoff who had not done so in the first round? In response, technical reasons have been put forward (such as campaign strategy, the use of social media, and mass mobilization), as well as political ones (fear of a far-right government, social-class alliances, the formation of a broad-based coalition, etc.).

Among the technical reasons, Lula’s tremendous effort to turn the runoff campaign into a genuine, nearly constant mass mobilization (in both large cities and small towns) has been highlighted. The former union leader once again demonstrated his great charisma and ability to rally people before thousands of PT activists and members of other allied parties who fought day and night without stopping to overturn the result.

Added to this is the PT’s digital strategy; the party had repeatedly accused major social media platforms of boycotting the presidential campaign by hindering or reducing the visibility of Lula’s ads – but not those of Bolsonaro. In response, André Janones proposed a change in strategy.

Lula’s WhatsApp channel grew from 3.7 million subscribers to more than 10 million in the span of 12 days. Through this channel, users were instructed to post certain messages, search for information online, comment on specific posts, and so on. In other words, to circumvent an algorithmic system that, they claimed, was deliberately sabotaging Lula’s campaign.

The result was astonishing: despite the alleged media blockade on social media, the platforms were flooded with messages, images, and videos (many generated by AI) featuring Lula and attacking Bolsonaro’s candidacy, which undoubtedly had a major impact on the political communication strategy of the PT’s campaign, led by re-elected Governor Rafael Fonteles. For example, online interactions about Lula increased from 41% to 65% during the runoff election.

But Lula also took the risk of bringing about tangible changes in people’s lives, and he sent what may have been his final message during the runoff election, when his party and allies succeeded in passing legislation to end the six-day workweek. The move was celebrated by the country’s workers and clearly gave Lula’s campaign a pro-worker tone. That is why he gained so many millions of votes in the second round of the election in the working-class suburbs of major cities.

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And yet, there remains a certain suspicion that if this set of measures had been applied in any other similar situation, something would have been missing to set it in motion and give deeper meaning to the purely political campaign – with its communication, marketing, and other tactical decisions. And that something is Lula.

At times it seems that only someone with his political stature, his charisma, and the historic place he has already carved out in the history books could have won an election in Latin America against the far right, which enjoys the support of the most influential imperial powers of our time and an international oligarchy.

The “warrior of the Brazilian people

Lula achieved this, as already mentioned, thanks to a series of changes in his campaign strategy and concrete improvements in people’s lives. But it must be said without fear of contradiction: he did so by blending two dimensions that might seem contradictory, yet which a figure like him could bring together.

The first is that, as some of his campaign strategists recount, he began to speak extensively about Brazil’s future despite having already served as president three times. In this way, he moved away from nostalgia for the past and began to speak of hope for the future.

And second, Lula insisted throughout the campaign that this future was threatened by the Bolsonaros, whom he constantly linked to a submissive attitude toward US interests. In this way, Lula also employed a discourse of fear and danger, personifying it in Bolsonaro, who, as is well known, had reportedly left Brazil for the United States.

But Lula did not do so in a pitiful or apocalyptic way; rather, he presented himself as the only one capable of halting that advance. And more than just capable, as the only one who, without a doubt, would do so. In other words, Lula established himself, at the age of 80, as a “warrior of the Brazilian people,” just as his supporters chanted in the streets.

Then, in the debates (which undoubtedly had a huge impact on the runoff election) it seems Lula had had enough of the far right always appearing to be on the offensive, while the left and progressives always seemed to be waiting for the next blow. Lula put on his boxing gloves and began playing the game the far right had set for him … and won by knockout.

And for that very reason, Lula, his followers, and many of those who supported him (not necessarily because they believe in his agenda, but because they feared a new far-right government, as the numbers show) must realize that, with a hostile legislature and an opposition united around a single family, Lula’s fourth term will likely be the most difficult of his life.

Lula will have to seek ways to overcome the clear obstacles that the right and the far right will place in his path in order to achieve what he called “the best government in Brazil’s history.” For now, he has managed to prevent another Bolsonaro from reaching the presidency, but that does not mean the remainder of his term will be a “Brazilian pax.” 

In this regard, there is a Japanese proverb that Lula should keep in mind: “When you’ve won a battle, tighten your helmet.”