Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized due to abdominal pain associated with a 2018 stabbing, his wife confirmed Monday on social media.
Michel Bolsonaro’s Instagram post came as Brazil was still reeling from the mobs that flocked to the country’s parliament, supreme court and the place of the president on Sunday.
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro looks on after a press conference two days after he lost the presidential election run-off to Lula da Silva at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, November 1, 2022. increase.
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Many of the protesters want the Brazilian military to restore Bolsonaro to power and oust the newly installed leftist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro flew to Florida before Lula’s inauguration. He wrote on Twitter that while peaceful protests are part of democracy, vandalism and trespassing on public buildings are “exceptions to this rule.”
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Before Sunday’s riots, Bolsonaro was repeatedly seen in a central Florida community near Orlando, wandering the aisles of Publix supermarkets, dining alone at local KFCs, and, above all, surrounded by throngs of devoted fans. It was
The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said it received a request from the Secret Service to provide police escort when Bolsonaro arrived and said he was still a sitting president, but he was surrounded by high profile security guards. not
His new home, the Encore Resort in the Orlando suburb of Reunion, consists of a fully furnished rental home with foosball tables, screening rooms, Disney decorations on the walls and a stuffed Mickey Mouse on the bed.
File: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (middle) meets with supporters outside the villa where he’s staying near Orlando, Florida, Wednesday, January 4, 2023.
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When asked by reporters on Monday whether the US would send Mr Bolsonaro back to Brazil, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the Biden administration had not received requests from Brazil related to the former president. .
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Brazil’s Justice Minister Flavio Dino told reporters that at the moment Brazil has no plans to ask the United States to extradite Bolsonaro.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
