OPINION_ Brazil's Corruption Familiar, Its Cheerleaders on Same Side ( Laura Hollis - NEWSMAX )

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Brazil's Corruption Familiar, Its Cheerleaders on Same Side

Flavio Bolsonaro steps off a plane after arriving at Opa Locka Executive Airport - Miami, Fla. - Oct. 28, 2026 - despite a court order banning him from leaving his country. His plane touched down after flying from Argentina with a stopover in Ecuador. Speculation had swirled over his whereabouts. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images)

By Laura Hollis
Thursday, 29 October 2026 06:38 AM EDT
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Now Corruption in Brazil Is a 'Conspiracy Theory'

Runoffs in Brazil's presidential elections took place Oct. 25, and the socialist candidate — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ("Lula") — won after some procedural funny business.

Among other things, Lula's campaign claimed that traffic congestion prevented some voters on city buses from getting to the polls before they closed at 5 p.m.

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin, who has also been Lula's private attorney and was appointed to the court by Lula, unilaterally issued an order demanding that the polls be reopened for two hours — but only in pro-Lula districts.

In parts of the country that favored Lula's opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro, polls remained closed. Zanin's decision was also problematic because the country has an electoral court with exclusive jurisdiction over election procedures; Zanin does not sit on that court.

Lula ended up winning — a remarkable result, given that he had trailed Bolsonaro by two million votes in the first election round a few weeks prior.

Never in modern Brazilian history has a presidential candidate who came in second in the first round of voting won in the runoff.

But that's not the worst part.

Bolsonaro objected to the results and declared his intention to have the election investigated, whereupon Senhor Presidente Lula called for Bolsonaro's arrest and demanded that he surrender his passport.

How very democratic.

This is the way a politician behaves when he is confident about his victory, right?

He immediately orders the arrest of his opponent?

Bolsonaro knew what was coming; his father was arrested by Lula and is currently serving a 27-year sentence. He apparently reached out to his contacts in Argentina and here in America.

(U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is said to have played a role in Bolsonaro's escape).

According to Reuters, Bolsonaro, his wife, Fernanda, and their two daughters crossed (passports in hand) into the Misiones province in Argentina late on Tuesday, Oct. 27, and boarded a private jet that took them to Guayaquil, Ecuador, and then on to Miami, Florida.

Although Argentinian President Javier Milei has not released an official statement, Bolsonaro publicly thanked both President Donald Trump and Milei upon his arrival in Florida. The Bolsonaros will be given visas to stay in the United States.

Trump weighed in on the matter, saying, "It looked like another rigged election, frankly. I didn't take sides, but it was a terrible look for the world. Elections have to be indisputable, and it looked really bad to me."

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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/laurahollis/bolsonaro-lula-zanin/2026/10/29/id/1274405/

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