RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Brazilian far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized with belly ache, his spouse stated Monday, following experiences he was receiving therapy in a Florida hospital a day after his supporters invaded the seat of energy in Brasilia.
Brazil’s O Globo newspaper stated Bolsonaro, 67, was admitted to Advent Health 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 under observation in the hospital, due to abdominal discomfort stemming from the stabbing attack he suffered in 2018” throughout his profitable presidential marketing campaign, Michelle Bolsonaro wrote on Instagram.
The Orlando hospital didn’t instantly reply to an AFP inquiry.
The former chief snubbed the standard 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 residence of Brazilian former blended martial arts champion Jose Aldo, a stone’s throw from Disney World.
News of his hospitalization got here the day after far-right protesters invaded the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court within the Brazilian capital, trashing the buildings in scenes harking back 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 evening to sentence the “pillaging” in Brasilia, however rejected Lula’s declare he incited the assaults, defending the appropriate to “peaceful protests.”
Bolsonaro has had a collection of well being issues stemming from the knife assault that almost claimed his life throughout 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. — Agence France-Presse
