Flávio Bolsonaro landed at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on Wednesday 28 October with his wife and two daughters, three days after losing Brazil's presidential runoff on Sunday 25 October to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The defeated candidate has not conceded defeat, denies wrongdoing in the money-laundering investigation behind his flight, and had said in a video on Monday that he would comply with a court order — a position the timeline of his journey contradicts.

A runoff defeat, then a flight north

The route, reconstructed from Argentina's migration authority and flight tracking cited by Reuters, took him across the Tancredo Neves Bridge into Argentina late on 27 October, then by private Baires Fly Gulfstream G400 to Guayaquil in Ecuador and on to Miami, arriving at 10:31 a.m. local time. The flight followed a Brazilian Supreme Court order from Justice Alexandre de Moraes to surrender his passports; Brazil's Federal Police cancelled them after he missed the surrender deadline around noon on 27 October. The US State Department said on 27 October it would issue visas and allow entry, and President Donald Trump said he would approve his arrival, calling the family “fine people”.

What is — and is not — established

Two things the reporting does not establish should not be added. A low-authority claim that he used an Italian passport to cross into Argentina is single-source and unverified, and is not used here. Nor is his US entry described as refuge or asylum: the sources report visas and entry permission only, not a protection claim.

Sources: Reuters and CNN.