Bolsonaro Eyes Early Return to Brazil

“The Biden administration is under growing pressure from leftists in Latin America as well as U.S. lawmakers to expel Jair Bolsonaro from a post-presidential retreat in Florida following his supporters’ brazen attack on Brazil’s capital over the weekend,” the AP reports.

“But the far-right ex-president may pre-empt any plans for such a stinging rebuke. On Tuesday, he told a Brazilian media outlet that he would push up his return home, originally scheduled for late January, after being hospitalized with abdominal pains stemming from a 2018 stabbing.”

Said Bolsonaro: “I came to spend some time away with my family but these weren’t calm days. First, there was this sad episode in Brazil and then my hospitalization.”