Bolsonaro’s trip to Orlando cost R$ 170,000

The trip of former president Jair Bolsonaro and his wife, Michelle, to Orlando, Florida (USA) cost R$ 170,000 to public coffers, according to records from the Presidency of the Republic. The entourage had 39 advisors and security guards, including lieutenant colonels Mauro César Cid, pivotal in the dismissal of the Army commander, and Marcelo Ustra, cousin of Colonel Brilhante Ustra, the first Brazilian soldier convicted of torture.

The blog had already reported that Bolsonaro, as former President of the Republic, had generated an expense of BRL 63,500, from January 1st to 15th of this year, with advisory, security and support services provided by two military personnel. in Orlando. Now the blog obtained, through the Access to Information Law, the expenses of the presidential entourage and a family member – in this case, the then First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro – at the end of 2022. It was BRL 106.5 thousand

The entourage included eight senior officers (from major to colonel) and 14 sergeants, in addition to non-commissioned officers and lesser officers. The president and the presidential entourage had 20 advisors and security guards, part of them members of the Advanced Escalão (Escav). Almost all traveled in official aircraft, returning to Brazil on January 1, without the former president, who remained in the United States.

Trigger for the fall of the Army commander

Mauro César Cid, head of President Bolsonaro’s assistant, was assigned to compose the advanced echelon on the trip to Orlando. In the records of his trip, it appears that he left Brasilia for Miami (USA) on December 30, in an official aircraft, bound for Miami. And I return on January 1st on a commercial flight, paying R$ 3,700 for the air ticket and travel insurance.

The trigger for Lula to determine the change in the Army Command was the resistance of Commander César de Arruda in barring the nomination of Mauro Cesar Cid to head the 1st Army Command Action Battalion in Goiânia (GO). Cid was an assistant to the Presidency in the government of Jair Bolsonaro and seen as one of the former president’s trusted men within the Army.

Sergeant Aline Amâncio de Oliveira was part of the security team supporting the trip of a family member of then President Bolsonaro. She traveled on December 28 to Miami, on a career flight, and returned to Brasília the next day. She received a daily rate and a half worth BRL 2,800 and paid BRL 17,200 for round-trip air tickets.

The trip of security guards to Orlando in January of this year is regulated by Law 7,474/1986, which provides benefits for former presidents. They are entitled to up to eight security guards, drivers and advisors, with daily rates and tickets paid by the Presidency of the Republic. In addition, the presidents have two armored official cars, fuel, telephone and internet.