Brazilian far-proper ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized with stomach pain, his spouse stated Monday, following reviews he changed into receiving remedy in a Florida clinic an afternoon after his supporters invaded the seat of strength in Brasilia.
Brazil’s O Globo newspaper stated Bolsonaro, 67, changed into admitted to AdventHealth Celebration acute care clinic out of doors Orlando, Florida, wherein the previous president traveled days earlier than the give up of his time period on December 31.
Bolsonaro “is beneathneath remark withinside the clinic, because of stomach soreness stemming from the stabbing assault he suffered in 2018” at some stage in his prevailing presidential marketing campaign, Michelle Bolsonaro wrote on Instagram.
The Orlando clinic did now no longer straight away reply to an AFP inquiry.
The former chief snubbed the conventional handover of the presidential sash whilst 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 domestic of Brazilian former combined martial arts champion Jose Aldo, a stone’s throw from Disney World.
News of his hospitalization got here the day after far-proper protesters invaded the presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court withinside the Brazilian capital, trashing the homes in scenes harking back to the January 6, 2021 assaults at the US Capitol through 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, protecting the proper to “non violent protests.”
Bolsonaro has had a chain of fitness troubles stemming from the knife assault that almost claimed his existence at some stage in the 2018 marketing campaign that delivered him to the presidency.
He has gone through six surgical procedures because the stabbing, perpetrated through an attacker who changed into determined mentally not worthy to face trial.