Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Hospitalised In US, His Spouse Confirms

Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized with stomach ache, his spouse confirmed on Monday.

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Brazilian far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized with stomach ache, his spouse mentioned Monday, following experiences he was receiving remedy in a Florida hospital a day after his supporters invaded the seat of energy in Brasilia.

Brazil’s O Globo newspaper mentioned Bolsonaro, 67, was admitted to AdventHealth Celebration acute care hospital outdoors Orlando, Florida, the place the previous president traveled two days earlier than the tip of his time period on December 31.

Bolsonaro “is beneath commentary within the hospital, as a result of stomach discomfort stemming from the stabbing assault he suffered in 2018” throughout his successful presidential marketing campaign, Michelle Bolsonaro wrote on Instagram.

The Orlando hospital didn’t instantly reply to an AFP inquiry.

The previous chief snubbed the normal handover of the presidential sash when the person who beat him on the polls, veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, took workplace on January 1.

He has been staying on the Orlando dwelling of Brazilian former combined martial arts champion Jose Aldo, a stone’s throw from Disney World.

Information of his hospitalization got here the day after far-right protesters invaded the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court docket within the Brazilian capital, trashing the buildings in scenes paying homage to the January 6, 2021 assaults on the US Capitol by supporters of then-president Donald Trump, a Bolsonaro ally.

Bolsonaro took to Twitter Sunday night time to sentence the “pillaging” in Brasilia, however rejected Lula’s declare he incited the assaults, defending the precise to “peaceable protests.”

Bolsonaro has had a collection of well being issues stemming from the knife assault that just about claimed his life in the course of the 2018 marketing campaign that introduced him to the presidency.

He has undergone six surgical procedures because the stabbing, perpetrated by an attacker who was discovered mentally unfit to face trial.

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