To the editor:

Last week Mar-a-Lago didn’t offer to just host another fascist, but offered former Brazilian “strongman” Jair Bolsonaro an alibi. Bolsonaro, Steve Bannon’s other pal previously in high office, is also known as the Trump of the Tropics.

As his treasonous mob set out trashing Brazilian government buildings, following his defeat in a lawful election, he was right here in Florida. (Bolsonaro lost the bid for re election, started sniveling that he was robbed in a rigged election, refused to attend the ceremony of a peaceful transfer to the winner and pouted that the military should stage a coup. Gosh that has a familiar ring to it.)

Bolsonaro left the Mar-a-Lago complex before the coupe got violently underway. Perhaps things became strained with Trump when TV footage demonstrated that the insurrection in Brazil had a bigger mob of lawless thugs than the Trump-induced insurrection on Jan. 6.

Awkward.

Ellen Starbird

Cape Coral