Rio de Janeiro
It was not the welcome that Jair Bolsonaro had dreamed of for his return yesterday to Brazil after three months of solitary exile in Florida.
The 68-year-old ex-president, who flew to the United States on December 30, two days before the end of his term, wanted to make a show of force against his left-wing successor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. .
But, citing security reasons, the government of the Federal District spoiled the party, isolating the international airport of Brasilia and prohibiting the gatherings of its supporters, while the Bolsonarist insurrection of January 8 is still in everyone's mind.
This failed reception gave a foretaste of his return to the country which promises to be strewn with pitfalls: he is entangled in a case of jewelry offered by Saudi Arabia and is being prosecuted in about fifteen legal proceedings which could earn him a series of convictions and probably his ineligibility for eight years.
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