Flavio Bolsonaro, the defeated candidate in Brazil's presidential runoff, arrived in Miami on Wednesday with family members after leaving Brazil, according to relatives cited by the BBC and reporting by the Associated Press^1,2.

AP said the plane landed at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport about 9:30 a.m. EDT after a private charter stopped in Guayaquil, Ecuador; Argentine officials said the family entered Argentina by land and boarded a charter². Brazil's Supreme Court had ordered him to surrender regular and diplomatic passports by noon Tuesday in investigations of alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, which he denies^1,2.

In a statement on X, Bolsonaro said the election was stolen and asked that the Lula-Alckmin ticket be annulled; a later version of the letter changed "president-elect" to "leader," AP reported². President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, reelected by about 4.4 million votes, said leaving the country was shameful and that Bolsonaro could have stayed to contest the accusations². The Organization of American States and other governments have congratulated Lula².

President Donald Trump said Bolsonaro was welcome, that the United States had given him a "pass" to enter, and that he would not comment on Bolsonaro's claim to be Brazil's rightful president-elect; Trump has called the Brazilian result strange without offering evidence². Bolsonaro's Liberal Party said it accepted the election result². His Senate term ends Jan. 31¹. Whether Brazil will seek his return, and whether he used an Italian passport as a diplomat told AP, were not independently confirmed in the BBC account^1,2.