Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Florida after suffering severe stomach pains. Brazil has reportedly stated that it had no plans to ask for the far-right politician to be extradited from the US.
The former President Jair Bolsonaro made a tweet of a photo of himself from a hospital, 24 hours after his supporters were condemned by the international community for invading the country’s most important seats of power.
Bolsonaro, who lost Brazil’s presidential election at the end of October, went into voluntary exile ahead of the transfer of power to his successor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The 67-year-old is apparently suffering from stomach complaints. Bolsonaro was stabbed in the abdomen in a 2018. The attack almost claimed his life.
He has undergone multiple surgeries since the attack, which happened during his eventually successful election campaign.
The former Brazilian president tweeted that “Yesterday I had new adhesions” and was hospitalized “in Orlando/USA.”
Bolsonaro has denied that he incited the attacks, but defended the right to “peaceful protests.”
President Joe Biden is now being pressured to remove Bolsonaro from his self-imposed exile in the southern US state.
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the stated that the US should discontinue to give refuge to the erstwhile president.
“Nearly two years to the day the US Capitol was attacked by fascists, we see fascist movements abroad attempt to do the same in Brazil,” she tweeted.
However, Brazilian Justice Minister Flavio Dino said on Monday that Brazil had no plans to ask the US for Bolsonaro to be extradited.
The attacks was compared with the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Congress by supporters of Donald Trump.
Dino said there were “two key differences” between the attacks in the US and Brazil.
“We had zero deaths, and more people were arrested,” he said.
