Barzil: More than 1,500 supporters of Jair Bolsonaro were arrested in Brasilia after storming the capital over the weekend, and were later airlifted to a Florida hospital.
Leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was elected on January 1 after defeating Bolsonaro in an election in October, vowed to prosecute those responsible for the violence.
The mob ransacked the Congress, Supreme Court and presidential offices, breaking furniture, smashing windows and destroying artwork.
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According to his wife, Michelle, on Instagram, Bolsonaro visited an Orlando hospital on Monday with intestinal pains related to the stabbing he suffered during the 2018 election campaign. His physician advised against surgery because the intestinal obstruction was not severe.
In Brazil, the Supreme Court is considering several cases involving Bolsonaro, and his future in the United States, where he travels on visas for heads of state, diplomats and other government figures, is in doubt.
Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro said on CNN that Bolsonaro should be deported back to Brazil and that the US should not harbor an "authoritarian who inspires domestic terrorism".
The US government declined to comment about Bolsonaro's visa.
According to US State Department spokesman Ned Price, anyone entering the country on a visa from foreign officials must leave within 30 days or apply for a change of immigration status.
In an effort to restore order in Brazil's capital, police and soldiers destroyed a two-month-old camp where Bolsonaro supporters have been protesting since losing the election on Monday, according to witnesses who spoke to Reuters.
Officials said that 1,200 camp residents were being held for questioning on Monday, following about 300 arrests on Sunday.
After leaving that camp on Sunday, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace in the worst attack on public institutions since Brazil's return to democracy in the 1980s.
During a phone call on Monday, Biden invited Lula to visit Washington in early February, according to a White House statement.
More protests continued into Sunday night by pro-Bolsonaro truckers who have been wreaking intermittent havoc on Brazil's highways for months.
On Monday, police removed roadblocks from the BR 163 highway, which passes through Mato Grosso, Brazil's top grain-producing state, and another highway in Paraná state.
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The president's press secretary, Paulo Pimenta, told reporters that "there are still people trying to block roads and reach oil refineries." According to state-run oil company Petrobras, the operations of its refineries and fuel supplies were unaffected.
Brasilia's governor was expelled from office late Sunday for a period of 90 days over alleged security lapses and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes demanded that social media sites Facebook, Twitter and TikTok suspend users' accounts. Block it. Block accounts that spread hate. Democratic propaganda.
On Monday, Facebook, Meta and YouTube, the owners of Google, announced they were removing any content endorsing or praising the weekend's activities. Telegram claimed to cooperate with the Brazilian government and fact-checking organizations to prevent the spread of content that incites violence.
Requests for comment from Twitter and TikTok went unanswered. The Bovespa benchmark stock index rose in afternoon trade, and the currency closed 0.4 percent weaker against the US dollar.
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Brazil's financial markets stabilized after an initial decline. Some analysts predicted that Sunday's violence would help Lula politically.
