Miami, Feb 12 (EFE).- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said from Florida (USA), where he has been since the end of December, that he will return to Brazil “in the coming weeks” because his “mission on the Tierra” has not finished yet, according to a local media report this Sunday.
“I also want to go back to Brazil, I intend to go back to Brazil in the coming weeks,” declared the far-right leader in Boca Raton, South Florida, during a meeting with Brazilian supporters gathered in an evangelical church.
“It’s worth the risk, you can be sure of that. The majority of the Brazilian people are with us,” the former president said in Portuguese at the Church of All Nations, in Boca Raton, some 72 kilometers north of Miami, according to reports this Sunday the local media Palm Beach Post.
Bolsonaro said he plans to return to Brazil in “the next few weeks” despite fears by supporters that he could be arrested upon arrival, he stressed, after which his supporters began to applaud him.
Mark Boykin, pastor of the evangelical church that organized the event, introduced Bolsonaro as the “recently elected” president of Brazil and prayed aloud that the United States and Brazil one day “learn to count when there are elections,” said the aforementioned. half.
The 67-year-old retired military also stated that “everyone has a mission in life” and that his is not over yet.
Bolsonaro, 67, has been in the US since December 30 and is awaiting a “visa change” requested by his lawyer in January to stay longer in this country, which he arrived while still president.
During the act there were no direct references to the attack perpetrated on January 8 by Bolsonaro members on the headquarters of the three state powers in Brasilia, from which Bolsonaro timidly disassociated himself in a statement issued from Orlando (Florida), where he is residing temporarily.
Without mentioning the riots, according to the Palm Beach Post, Bolsonaro told his supporters that they must take risks to overcome the problems they believe the country is facing.
At the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, on January 14, the Supreme Court of Brazil included the former Brazilian president in the list of those investigated for the attempted coup.
Bolsonaro’s announcement to return to Brazil came at another public event in the United States, following the “Power of the People” event organized in early February by the conservative group Turning Point USA at a golf club. belonging to the business consortium of Donald Trump, former US president.
It also comes after the first visit to the United States since the inauguration of Brazil’s president-elect, the leader of the leftist Workers’ Party Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who met last Friday at the White House with his counterpart Joe Biden, with the commitment to defend democracy.
During the meeting, Biden referred to the assault on the US Capitol in January 2021 by supporters of then-President Donald Trump (2017-2021) and the attack on January 8 against the Three Powers of the nation in Brasilia by part of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023). EFE
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