Terrorist leader Bolsonaro says he will cut short his trip to Brazil to deal with the after-effects of the Juiz de Fora incident.
By not acknowledging his defeat, Jair Bolsonaro incited terrorism in Brasília.
(Reuters)- Former President Jair Bolsonaro told CNN Brazil on Monday that he intended to stay in the United States until the end of January, but that he will return to Brazil earlier than planned after being hospitalized due to a new case of intestinal obstruction.
"I came to stay until the end of the month, but I intend to return earlier. Because, in Brazil, the doctors already know about my intestinal obstruction problem due to the stabbing. Here, the doctors haven't been monitoring me," said Bolsonaro, according to a report on the CNN Brasil website.
Bolsonaro, 67, was admitted to a hospital near Orlando, Florida, on Monday with a new case of partial bowel obstruction, but is not expected to undergo further surgery, according to his surgeon, Antônio Luiz Macedo.
The former president has a history of hospitalizations for intestinal problems since being stabbed in the abdomen during the 2018 election campaign. He has undergone six surgeries since then, four of them directly related to the stabbing. In January of last year, he also suffered an intestinal obstruction that led to his hospitalization in São Paulo.
The hospitalization occurred one day after radical supporters of Bolsonaro invaded and vandalized the Planalto Palace and the buildings of Congress and the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in anti-democratic acts calling for a coup against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro never fully acknowledged Lula's victory and made gestures encouraging the pro-coup movement that emerged after his election defeat. He traveled to Florida two days before Lula's inauguration so as not to participate in the power transfer ceremony.
"I came to spend some time away with my family. But I haven't had any calm days. First, there was this unfortunate episode yesterday (Sunday) in Brazil and then my hospitalization," he told CNN Brazil.
The future of Bolsonaro in the US, where he traveled on a visa issued for heads of state, diplomats, and other government officials, was an open question. Representative Joaquin Castro, a Democratic member of the US Congress, told CNN that the United States should not give refuge to an "authoritarian who inspired domestic terrorism" and should send Bolsonaro back to Brazil. The US government declined to comment on Bolsonaro's visa. US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Monday that a person who entered the country on a visa for foreign officials must leave within 30 days or apply for a change of immigration status if they are no longer engaged in official activities.
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