BRASILIA: Brazil’s defeated presidential candidate, right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro, has had his passports cancelled, a police source said on Tuesday, amid speculation over his whereabouts. According to late-night reports, Bolsonaro has left for the United States.
“Flavio Bolsonaro’s passports have been cancelled,” the source said, adding that “there is no formal record of Flavio Bolsonaro leaving the country.” Argentina’s security ministry and migration authorities on Tuesday denied local media reports that Bolsonaro had entered the neighbouring country.
Flavio Bolsonaro last spoke publicaly on Monday afternoon in a video on social media saying he had been banned from leaving the country and ordered to surrender his passports. The right-wing senator lost an election bid to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and has refused to concede defeat.
He said the order to surrender his passports was based on a comment by his US-based brother Eduardo Bolsonaro, who told a US podcast two days before the election that “if my brother does not win, I am in favour that he would leave the country.” Brazilian police are probing Flavio Bolsonaro for corruption over the financing of the biopic “Dark Horse” about his former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest for plotting a coup.
Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2026
