The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has reiterated that Washington did not intervene "directly" in the departure of the Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro from Brazil nor in his subsequent arrival on U.S. territory.
"We have not been involved in the arrangements for Flávio Bolsonaro to leave Brazil. At least the Government of the United States has not been directly involved," Rubio has pointed out to the media.
The American official has likewise insisted that the Administration did not provide help "in anything" for Bolsonaro's entry into the North American country. "We know that he arrived in the United States. He already had a visa granted and the president made the decision to allow him to enter the country. That is what we allowed," he detailed.
In this way, Rubio frames the case as a personal decision by President Donald Trump and not as a "direct" action by the Government nor as participation in each of the movements that culminated in Bolsonaro's departure from Brazil.
Bolsonaro and several members of his family entered the United States on Wednesday, October 28, just three days after the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, in which he was defeated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He has authorization to remain for one year in the United States.
The official documentation includes an authorization of Discretionary Parole, a temporary provisional permit granted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after an individualized analysis of each application.
That same Saturday, the CNN Brasil network revealed that Bolsonaro left Brazil by crossing the border with Argentina on October 27, in an operation in which a former Israeli Mossad agent would have personally intervened and in which, according to that information, the governments of Argentina and the United States would have collaborated. Subsequently, the group would have flown to Miami in a private jet managed by Trump adviser Jason Miller.