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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been admitted to hospital in Florida, USA, after experiencing “severe abdominal pains”. The former leader was taken to hospital in the city of Orlando a day after some of his most hardcore supporters stormed the capital city of Brasilia to defy the newly inaugurated leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro arrived in the United States on December 30 last year, two days before Lula took the presidential office, following which major protests broke out in Brazil.
Bolsonaro’s hospitalisation comes as Brazilian authorities vowed on Monday to protect democracy and punish thousands of his supporters who stormed and trashed the nation’s highest seats of power over the weekend.
The chaos bore striking similarities to the January 6, 2021, invasion of Capitol Hill by disgruntled Donald Trump supporters who believed his loss to US President Joe Biden had been fraudulent.
Avid supporters of the far-right Bolsonaro have maintained that the ex-president was also the victim of a rigged election.
The protesters swarmed into Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace on Sunday. Many have said they want the Brazilian army to restore Bolsonaro to power and oust the newly inaugurated leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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