Brazilian far-proper ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized with belly pain, his spouse stated Monday, following reviews he became receiving remedy in a Florida health center an afternoon after his supporters invaded the seat of electricity in Brasilia.
Brazil’s O Globo newspaper stated Bolsonaro, 67, became admitted to AdventHealth Celebration acute care health center out of doors Orlando, Florida, in which the previous president traveled days earlier than the quit of his time period on December 31.
Bolsonaro “is below commentary withinside the health center, because of belly soreness stemming from the stabbing assault he suffered in 2018” in the course of his prevailing presidential marketing campaign, Michelle Bolsonaro wrote on Instagram.
The Orlando health center did now no longer straight away reply to an AFP inquiry.
The former chief snubbed the conventional handover of the presidential sash while 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 via way of means of 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 sequence of fitness issues stemming from the knife assault that almost claimed his existence in the course of the 2018 marketing campaign that introduced him to the presidency.
He has passed through six surgical procedures because the stabbing, perpetrated via way of means of an attacker who became determined mentally not worthy to face trial.