Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday banned a US diplomat who wanted to visit jailed former far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro amid fears of US meddling in the run-up to elections this year.
Bolsonaro, sentenced for plotting a coup, was hospitalized in intensive care Friday after developing bronchopneumonia at the prison.
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