En January 2002, President George W. Bush passed out for a moment, stunned by a pretzel. Twenty years later, it is the turn of the Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, to have a difficult start to the year. He began the year 2022 with an express stay at the Vila Nova Star private hospital in Sao Paulo, bedridden by his gluttony and a fragile digestive system. Since being stabbed in the intestine in September 2018, while campaigning for the presidential election, Mr. Bolsonaro has undergone at least four digestive system surgeries. The last dates back to July 2021.
Beware of shrimp
Urgently hospitalized early Monday morning, he obtained his “discharge voucher” on Wednesday. Suffering from a partial obstruction of the intestinal transit, the head of state recovered without needing to be operated. But his surgeon, Antonio Luiz Macedo, who has operated on him several times since the attack, recalled in a newspaper interview O Globo that his patient ended up in the hospital because of“A shrimp swallowed without being chewed” Sunday.
This information brought joy to opponents of the far-right president. On social networks, some say that these little crustaceans pelletized by Bolsonaro are “Anti-fascists”, as the news site writes Poder360. Aquiles Lins, a journalist for the left-wing news site Brasil 247 posted a tweet showing the crustacean, ready to “Start the revolution”.
Enquanto vocês ficam aí aguardando a data da revolução, os camarões agem. (via @pqpmddc) https://t.co/lYNKim1gky
Some, like the satirical blog Sensacionlista, did not resist the pun based on the name of the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva… In Portuguese, lula means “squid”.
Se camarão causou internação de Bolsonaro, imagina lula, diz especialista https://t.co/YACshht47L
“If a shrimp caused Bolsanaro’s hospitalization, imagine with a squid [lula], says a specialist. “
“Since then, the shrimp has been erected as a national hero and symbol of anti-fascism, and flourishes an endless number of jokes, logos and various distorted visuals”, writes on Twitter Barbara Serrano, lecturer at the University of Paris-Saclay.
election campaign. We now learn that this hospitalization was caused by a sickly shrimp (… https://t.co/mvtXz8oDC1
Like Sensationalist, which took over a famous poster dating from the 1970s and replaced the slogan “Be a marginal, be a hero”, through “Be a shrimp, be a hero”.
https://t.co/u9py646RZo
Communist deputy Alice Portugal simply wrote: ” There are things [que les supporteurs de Bolsonaro] do not digest. “
Depois de encherem a paciência do Wagner Moura por comer camarão durante a exibição do film Marighella em uma ocu… https://t.co/a5dPElubTq