After riots in Brazil, calls for Jair Bolsonaro to be extradited from Florida have intensified.
“Democratic Congress members have urged U.S. authorities to extradite former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro to his home country, after his supporters stormed government buildings in the capital, Brasilia, on Sunday.
Bolsonaro has reportedly been living near Orlando, Florida, since December when he fled Brazil and refused to participate in the ceremonial handover of the presidential sash to his successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Speaking to CNN’s Jim Acosta, Texas Democrat Joaquin Castro called on the White House and local authorities in Florida to consider sending the ‘dangerous’ Bolsonaro back to Brazil.
Bolsonaro ‘should be extradited to Brazil’, Castro told CNN, describing him as an authoritarian who used the ‘[Donald] Trump playbook’ to inspire ‘domestic terrorists to try to take over the government’.
His message comes after thousands of Bolsonaro’s supporters marched through the Brazilian capital on Sunday, claiming the October presidential elections were compromised.
The demonstrators, who insisted that there were a number of voting irregularities in the election, ended up storming the Brazilian Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential Planalto Palace, leading to violent clashes with police.
Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied having any involvement in the unrest, insisting that he only supports peaceful demonstrations, which are ‘part of democracy’”. -RT
The pseudo-democracies are standing up to the increasingly popular protests against stolen democracy throughout the globe.
Remember, these are the same people who had no problem with the uprisings in Libya and Syria because they incited those themselves.
The same way in which the U.S. government recognized the separation of Kosovo from Serbia but not the DPR and LPR from Ukraine.
“Democracies around the world must stand united to condemn this attack on democracy. Bolsonaro should not be given refuge in Florida”. -Minnesota Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar
I’d presume if the American public had a say over which particular politicians they’d like to see extradited out of the country, Ilhan Omar and everyone else working within our government to defend illiberal democracy and subvert the will of the voter would be deported before Bolsonaro.