Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son Eduardo shocked the nation recently when he announced he was stepping down from congress to live in the United States, but what is he doing up there? TeleSUR correspondent Brian Mier has more. teleSUR
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00:00Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son Eduardo shocked the nation recently when
00:05he announced he was stepping down from Congress to live in the United States,
00:09but what is he doing up there? Our correspondent Brian Mears has the details.
00:16Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, surprised colleagues from his liberal
00:22party last week when he announced on social media that he was taking a leave of absence from
00:27Congress and had fled Brazil out of fear that the federal police were going to confiscate
00:31his passport. The police later announced he's not under investigation for anything.
00:38Eduardo Bolsonaro fled to the US.
00:42This is what happened. He's become a prisoner of his own fake news.
00:47He said that had to leave because there is a judicial dictatorship in Brazil.
00:52But first of all, he's preparing an escape route for his dad. Second, he and his father
00:58want to convince the US to refuse to recognize upcoming democratic elections in Brazil.
01:05For years, Eduardo Bolsonaro has served as the primary intermediary between the Bolsonaro family
01:10and its allies with the international far right. He's credited with bringing the Conservative
01:16Political Action Congress, or CPAC, to Brazil, and many analysts suspect he's going to use his
01:22time in the US to strengthen his family's relationship with the Trump administration.
01:27I believe that the plan behind Eduardo Bolsonaro's flight to the United States
01:31and his leave of absence from Congress is to strengthen a future scenario in which he can
01:36run for president. The international far right is already working towards this.
01:41Republican party lawmakers and their allies in the media have been pushing for the Trump
01:46administration to issue sanctions against the individual Supreme Court justices responsible
01:51for the investigation against Jair Bolsonaro. But if Eduardo jumps into the fray during
01:56his time in the US, he could end up with his own legal problems.
02:03If he convinces foreign groups to intervene in Brazil's democratic rule of law,
02:08to violate Brazil's territorial integrity,
02:11independence, or sovereignty, this can represent the crime of an attack against sovereignty,
02:18according to the terms and conditions of article 359 of our criminal code.
02:26Eduardo Bolsonaro recently told the press that he's working for electoral freedom in Brazil,
02:31in the United States. As he's still an elected official, this puts him on legal shaky ground.
02:37Brian Muir, TELUS Sir, Recife.