Brazil's government has expressed outrage after 88 Brazilian deportees were flown back from the United States in handcuffs, calling the treatment "blatant disrespect" for their rights. The flight, which was initially scheduled to land in Belo Horizonte,

The flight, originally destined for the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte, encountered a technical issue forcing it to land in Manaus.

Brazil's foreign ministry said it summoned a senior U.S. diplomat on Monday to discuss the deportation of Brazilian migrants, part of a push to seek mutually acceptable terms for the controversial repatriations.

It’s the latest diplomatic dispute between a Latin American country and the Trump administration over the treatment of migrants during repatriation flights.

Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to seek explanations from the U.S. government over the "degrading treatment" of Brazilians on a deportation flight, the ministry wrote on X on Saturday night.

The deportees arrived at Manaus Airport in Amazonas, where the Brazilian Federal Police discovered that they had been transported in handcuffs and chains.

Brazil's government expressed outrage after dozens of immigrants deported from the US arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a "flagrant disregard" for their rights.

"There was sexual violence, there was torture, there was cruelty, which are very explicit signs of hatred, misogyny, and xenophobia,” said a representative of the Ministry for Women.

Brazilian and U.S. officials agreed on Wednesday to discuss regularly how Washington will deport migrants from Brazil, as some leaders in Latin America have balked at what they see as poor treatment of their citizens on repatriation flights.

With Donald Trump settling back into the White House, advocates for the Amazon worry about what his second term will mean for the rainforest.

Brazilian officials demanded that U.S. agents remove handcuffs from a group of deportees who were flown to the South American country on Friday, with a prominent minister in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government calling the practice "blatant disrespect" for the rights of his fellow citizens.