Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in Miami with family

Brazil's defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro stepped out of a private plane in Florida on Wednesday morning, AFP witnessed, despite a court order banning him from leaving his country. His plane touched down at Opa-Locka Executive Airport outside Miami after flying from Argentina with a stopover in Ecuador, as speculation had swirled for days over his whereabouts. Bolsonaro, who lost a runoff election to incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday, is under investigation in Brazil for alleged corruption and money laundering. With his election defeat, the 45-year-old is set to lose parliamentary immunity. The plane -- also carrying his wife and daughters -- that landed in Florida had made a brief stop in Guayaquil, Ecuador in the early hours of Wednesday, AFP journalists saw. Bolsonaro had seemed likely to be Brazil's next president after he came out on top in the first round of elections, but Lula made a surprise surge to retain power. Bolsonaro had campaigned on a pledge to liberate his father, who is under house arrest for coup-plotting after his own electoral loss to Lula in 2022. Jair Bolsonaro -- a close ally of US President Donald Trump -- never conceded defeat and left the country on the eve of his...