Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress

“After being stabbed in Juiz de Fora/MG, I underwent 5 surgeries,” Bolsonaro tweeted. “Since the last one, for 2x I had adhesions that led me to other medical procedures.”

He added that he was admitted to the hospital after suffering “new adherence.”

Bolsonaro left Brazil for the US on Dec. 30, 2022 — just two days before Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's inauguration — and was admitted into the Florida hospital after suffering from abdominal “discomfort,” according to an Instagram post from his wife Michelle Bolsonaro.  

Rodrigues, who will be leading President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government in Congress, said three of the grenades were found in the Supreme Court and two in Congress.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized police conduct in the lead-up to and during the attacks on government buildings in Brasilia this weekend.

"The Brasilia police neglected [the attack threat], Brasilia's intelligence neglected it,” Lula said during a meeting with governors on Monday. “It is easy to see in the footage the police officers talking to the attackers. There was an explicit connivance of the police with the demonstrators.”

Lula also described the attacks on government buildings as “coup acts,” and vowed to find out who financed them.

The Federal Police has also received reinforcements from 10 states to protect ministries and government buildings, the justice minister added.

Brazil's Justice Minister Flávio Dino said former President Jair Bolsonaro bears "political responsibility" for Sunday's attacks on government institutions in the country’s capital Brasília, but added there were no legal grounds to investigate him in connection with the riots at this time.

"Words have power and those words turned into hate, which turned into destruction," Dino said during a news conference on Monday. "It is a political responsibility because there are political leaders who are responsible for the hate speech and the destruction that we saw yesterday at the buildings of the three branches of powers, aiming at a coup d'état.” 

The minister said there are "no elements to advance in a sphere of legal responsibility" yet against Bolsonaro. 

"But in a political analysis, the entire Brazilian nation knows that in all these years in presidency, Bolsonaro and everyone who follows him has in recent years uttered frequent [verbal] attacks against the Supreme Court,” he said.

Bolsonaro left Brazil for the US on Dec. 30, 2022 — just two days before President Lula’s inauguration — and is currently in a Florida hospital suffering from abdominal “discomfort,” according to his wife Michelle Bolsonaro in an Instagram post.  

Bolsonaro routinely attacked and discredited Brazil’s electoral system, the country’s Supreme Court, and left-wing voters and leadership during the course of his presidency. He also never explicitly conceded to Lula’s election win last October.

The former president did, however, take to Twitter on Sunday to criticize the attacks on government buildings and insist he had always acted within the bounds of the Constitution.

"Peaceful demonstrations, respecting the law, are part of democracy. However, depredations and invasions of public buildings as occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, escape the rule,” Bolsonaro said.

He continued, saying “Throughout my mandate, I have always been acting according to the Constitution, respecting and defending the laws, democracy, transparency and our sacred freedom.”

“Furthermore, I repudiate the accusations, without evidence, attributed to me by the current chief executive of Brazil," the former president said.

President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday following an attack on government buildings in Brazil.

During the call, Biden reiterated that Lula won the most recent Brazilian presidential election, according to a readout. He also invited the Brazilian president to Washington, DC, which Lula accepted and will visit "in “early February for in-depth consultations on a wide-ranging shared agenda.”

“President Biden conveyed the unwavering support of the United States for Brazil’s democracy and for the free will of the Brazilian people as expressed in Brazil’s recent presidential election, which President Lula won,” said the readout, provided by the White House. “President Biden condemned the violence and the attack on democratic institutions and on the peaceful transfer of power.”

Biden and Lula, “pledged to work closely together on the issues confronting the United States and Brazil, including climate change, economic development, and peace and security.”

Brazilian authorities, security and staff worked Monday to cleanup and assess the damage left behind after hundreds of supporters of former leader Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings to protest against his successor and rival, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Here are some photos of the aftermath:

“Let's be clear, this was an obvious and clear attack on a democratic process and we condemn it of course,” Harris said to reporters in her ceremonial office, after swearing in the US’ newest ambassador to Brazil Elizabeth Frawley Bagley. 

“I will also say that, as I've said to the ambassador, Ambassador Bagley, that I'm very confident in her ability to represent the United States and to extend to President Lula all that we mean in terms of the work that we will do together as allies on some of the most important issues facing our world. So we're very much looking forward to her leadership and to working with President Lula,” she added. 

Harris ignored a question on whether Bolsonaro should be removed from the US as he currently remains in Florida.

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price would not confirm that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had entered the United States on an A1 visa — which is granted to heads of state and only valid while they are in that position.

Price added that if such a visa holder “is no longer engaged in official business on behalf of their government, it is incumbent on that visa holder to depart the US or to request a change to another immigration status within 30 days.”

He said that request has to be made to the Department of Homeland Security, adding that “if an individual has no basis on which to be in the United States, an individual is subject to removal by the Department of Homeland Security.”

“I am of course, not going to comment on the visa records of any individual, individual visa records, as you know, are confidential, and we wouldn't speak to the status of any particular individual,” Price said at a State Department briefing Monday.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital on Monday, his wife said in a post on her official Instagram account.

The breaches happened a week after the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who returned to power after a 12-year hiatus following a victory over Bolsonaro in a run-off election at the end of October.

An ally of the former president tells CNN Brasil that Bolsonaro had been feeling discomfort on Sunday night and that he is hospitalized in the Orlando area where he has been visiting for over a week.