Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized in Florida one day after supporters of his failed re-election campaign rioted and stormed multiple federal buildings in his home country.

The conservative populist was admitted to AdventHealth Celebration, a hospital outside Orlando, with concerns over severe abdominal pain, according to a report from Brazilian news outlet Globo. The former chief executive has reportedly been hospitalized a handful of times from abdominal pain since he was stabbed by a socialist activist in 2018 during a rally, resulting in severe blood loss and damage to multiple organs at the time.

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The hospitalization occurs as Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who assumed office last week, and other officials in the South American nation crack down on Bolsonaro supporters who destroyed federal property in the Sunday demonstrations. Lula, a self-described socialist, defeated Bolsonaro, a populist conservative sometimes called the “Trump of the Tropics,” by a narrow margin during elections held in October, which occurred two years after a justice on the Brazilian Supreme Court cleared him of previous corruption convictions.

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