Exiled Bolsonaro lives it up in Florida as legal woes grow back home

Now, after 30 days as a temporary guest in the US, since his tearful farewell from Brazil two days before the inauguration of leftist successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Bolsonaro has decided he likes Florida so much that he wants to stay longer.

But experts in Florida say Bolsonaro is in an undesired and somewhat awkward position, at risk of appearing increasingly weak to supporters by disengaging from developments at home, while uncharacteristically having to refrain from his trademark fiery rhetoric and bombast.

In Brazil, meanwhile, Bolsonaro faces a number of criminal inquiries, including an investigation into his alleged role in the Brasília uprising. The supreme court has launched five parallel inquiries into the events to investigate financial backers and intellectual authors as well as the rioters, while prosecutors have presented charges against nearly 500 people involved in the ransacking.

Adding to the inquiries stacking up against the former president, the supreme court justice Luís Roberto Barroso on Monday authorized an investigation into whether the Bolsonaro government committed crimes including genocide against the Yanomami Indigenous people, who are currently suffering a humanitarian crisis.