Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has applied for a six-month visa to remain in the U.S. as his home country investigates whether he's partially responsible for an attack on Brasilia's capital buildings last month.
and continued to stoke beliefs that Brazil's electronic voting system was prone to fraud, even as mounting terrorism threats left the country on edge.
The investigation into the capital attacks is just the latest into Bolsonaro's conduct. Allegations levied against the former president in span from using the federal police to protect his sons to harboring a disinformation troll farm within his own office.Supporters of Bolsonaro pray for his health outside his rental house at the Encore Resort in Kissimmee, Fla., on Jan. 12.Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images
Supporters of Bolsonaro pray for his health outside his rental house at the Encore Resort in Kissimmee, Fla., on Jan. 12.For a month, he's been residing in a Florida home owned by a Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter in a gated Orlando community not far from Disney World. Reports and snapshots shared on social media show he's living much like a local, wandering around supermarkets, chowing down on Kentucky Fried Chicken and checking into the hospital for an old stab wound.
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