(10 Jan 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reunion, Florida – 10 January 2023
1. Wide of house believed to be where former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is staying
2. Windows
3. Wide of street
4. A woman walking with stroller
5. A Bolsonaro supporter taking a video call outside of house
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Vanessa Viana, 45, Brazilian expat:
"Today (I came because of) my passion, my passion for the president. My mom made me come here, she told me that if I don't come here and (have Bolsonaro) sign this picture for her, and sign this shirt for her, she won't talk to me for one year. I came here to try to see him and take one picture and speak to him, because I know about his passion, it's my passion too, and our Brazilian's passion. The people believe in this guy."
7. Wide of street
8. Sign for amusement parks
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Vanessa Viana, 45, Brazilian expat:
"A lot of people have other opinions, you need to respect them. I don't live in Brazil anymore but all my family is in Brazil so I'm worried about that. I worry about the future for my mom, my cousin, all my family is there, and I'm worried about the violence."
10. Various of security guards and cars outside house
11. Pan of neighborhood entrance
12. Close up neighborhood sign
13. Wide of street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kissimmee, Florida – 9 January 2023
14. Wide hospital where former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is believed to have been admitted
15. Various of hospital entrance
16. Hospital signage
17. Hospital windows
STORYLINE:
As Brazil reels from mobs of rioters swarming its seats of power, its former leader has decamped to a Florida resort, where supporters flocked to cheer on their ousted president.
Devotees have traveled in recent days to the temporary home of Jair Bolsonaro, a gated community with towering waterslides, for a chance to see him.
"Today (I came because of) my passion, my passion for the president," said Vanessa Viana, a Brazilian expat living in Orlando.
On Monday, Bolsonaro was hospitalized with abdominal pain. His wife, Michelle, said on social media that he had been hospitalized for observation due to abdominal discomfort related to a 2018 stabbing that has led to multiple hospitalizations in the past. A photo published by Brazilian newspaper O Globo showed him smiling from his hospital bed. A hospital spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a phone call and text message.
Prior to Sunday's angry storming of Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace, Bolsonaro had been seen repeatedly in this central Florida community, wandering a Publix supermarket's aisles, dining alone at a local KFC and, most of all, surrounded by clusters of adoring fans.
Though the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said it received a request from the Secret Service to provide a police escort for Bolsonaro when he arrived and he was still a sitting president, he has not been surrounded by a noticeable phalanx of security.
His new home, Encore Resort at Reunion in the suburbs of Orlando, is made up of furnished rental homes with foosball tables, screening rooms, Disney decor on the walls and Mickey Mouse stuffed animals on beds.
A bevy of Brazilians have been lured to central Florida in the past two decades and have in turn transformed the region with scores of Brazilian shops and restaurants.
Though Lula da Silva won Brazil's election by more than 2 million votes, Brazilian voters living in Florida appear to have heavily favored Bolsonaro. Election data for Brazilians living abroad shows 56 polling locations listed under Miami, the only Florida city under which data is compiled.
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