His discharge from the hospital comes two days after thousands of his supporters stormed Sunday’s Presidential Palace, Congress and Supreme Court in Brazil to protest his defeat in the 2022 presidential election against the leftist candidate Lula.
Jair Bolsonaro had left Brazil for Florida two days before Lula took office on January 1, refusing to hand over the presidential sash to the one whose victory he never digested on the wire. He lives in the house of a former Brazilian MMA fighter, José Aldo. The former far-right leader has suffered a series of health alerts since the stab attack he suffered in September 2018, in the midst of the presidential election campaign. Stabbed in the abdomen by an apparently deranged individual during a walk, he narrowly escaped death and the aftermath of this attack marred his tenure.
