Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized in Florida for abdominal pain, it was reported Monday, a day after his supporters stormed Brazil’s top government offices in the wake of his election loss. Bolsonaro has been hospitalized on multiple occasions since the 2018 stabbing and has undergone six surgeries in that time, most of them related to the attack. AdvertisementKey government buildings in Brazil’s capital, including the country’s Congress and its Supreme Court, were ransacked by thousands of Bolsonaro supporters who demanded that he be reinstated or that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who won election in October, be removed from office. Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his defeat, has been laying low in an Orlando rental house since late December, The New York Times reported. Human Rights Watch was among those blaming the violence squarely on Bolsonaro and his allies.

Source: Huffington Post January 10, 2023 00:23 UTC