“He is in the hospital in Orlando. He is being tested” for abdominal pain, that source told EFE of the health of the former president, who left power on January 1 when he was succeeded by progressive Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
According to the Brazilian press, the former head of state is attending the AdventHealth Celebration in Orlando, Florida, although an operator of that clinic assured EFE that the far-right leader is not there.
The Brazilian source pointed out that these digestive complications are a result of the stab wound that Bolsonaro suffered on September 6, 2018, during an election act in the city of Juiz de Fora, which required multiple surgeries.
As a result of this attack, the retired army captain also developed digestive system problems that required him to be hospitalized on several occasions during his tenure, which began in January 2019 and ended on December 31, 2022.
One of the last times he was admitted was in January last year, although surgery was not necessary this time and the intestinal obstruction he suffered was reversed with the passage of a tube.
Bolsonaro left Brazil on December 30, two days before the inauguration of Lula, whom he has not yet congratulated on his victory in last October’s election, and headed for Florida with no official plan to return to his country.
His hospitalization coincides with the frustrated coup attempt carried out on Sunday by thousands of his most radical followers in Brasilia, where they raided and destroyed the headquarters of the parliament, the presidency and the supreme court for four and a half hours.
Bolsonaro lukewarmly rejected his supporters’ revolt and sued Lula, who accused the now ex-governor of “incentivizing” his supporters to attack Brazilian democracy.
Source: El heraldo
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