Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized in Florida, United States, with severe abdominal pain, according to his wife.
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Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized and “is under observation” for “abdominal problems”, his wife Michelle announced on Monday, after reports from Brazilian media on an admission of the former Brazilian president to a hospital in Florida, United States. United. Jair Bolsonaro, 67, who left Brazil two days before the end of his mandate on December 31, bears serious consequences from the stabbing attack that nearly cost him his life in September 2018, just before his death. election to the presidency.
Several Brazilian media had previously announced that the ex-president had been hospitalized in Orlando, Florida (southeast of the United States), the day after a violent assault by his supporters against the presidential palace, Congress and the Court. Supreme Court of Brasilia, for which he denied any responsibility.
Several hospitalizations
He was admitted to the AdventHealth Celebration hospital because of “severe abdominal pain”, reported the daily O Globo. Bolsonaro, 67, has serious consequences from the stabbing that nearly cost him his life in September 2018, just before his election as president. Obstructions, sub-occlusions or intestinal adhesions: he has been hospitalized in emergency half a dozen times and reoperated six times since the end of 2018. The former far-right head of state had left Brazil without attending the ceremony of investiture of his successor on the left, Lula, on January 1, to go to the property of an ex-martial arts champion, José Aldo, in Orlando
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