Democratic Representative Joaquin Castro has called on the U.S. to work on having the former Brazilian president «extradited.»
In response to the storming of Brazil’s Congress, some U.S. politicians have said the country’s far-right former president, Jair Bolsonaro, should be «extradited» from Florida, where he is living, but this is unlikely to happen.
On Sunday, Bolsonaro supporters burst into the country’s Congress building, as well as the presidential palace and Supreme Court, in an eerily similar fashion to the January 6 Capitol riots.
Amid anger over the storming of the seat of power in Brasilia, some Democrats have called for Bolsonaro to be denied «refuge» in Florida.
U.S. Representive Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, took to Twitter to call for Bolsonaro to be denied a safe haven in Florida, home of Bolsonaro’s ally, former president Donald Trump.
She tweeted: «Two years ago our Capitol was attacked by fanatics, now we are watching it happen in Brazil.
«Solidarity with Lula and the Brazilian people.
