Flavio Bolsonaro claims Brazil’s leadership after arriving in Miami

Flavio Bolsonaro arrived in Miami and declared himself Brazil’s rightful leader in a revised open letter, after first calling himself the country’s elected president. He alleged that criminals had stolen the election, but offered no evidence for electoral fraud, according to the reports of his statement. The Brazilian senator posted the letters on X after leaving Brazil with his family. He deleted the initial version and replaced it with one describing himself as the country’s leader. In it, he said the alleged election theft was part of a criminal organization that had established a tyranny. The claim is Bolsonaro’s; Brazil’s federal electoral court recognized Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory, and international observers described the vote as fair. Bolsonaro lost to Lula by about 4.5 million votes. His challenge to the result focused on a Supreme Court justice’s decision to extend voting by two hours, following Lula’s campaign allegations of voter suppression in northeastern states. Bolsonaro’s campaign had also sought additional voting time because of rain in conservative southern states. An analysis by Insper professor Pedro Burgos estimated that fewer than 35,000 votes,...