Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized in Orlando, Florida (southeast of the United States) with severe abdominal pain, several Brazilian media announced on Monday January 9, without citing a source. Information confirmed by his wife, Michelle, at the start of the evening. She indicates that he “is under observation” to “abdominal problems”.
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The former far-right head of state had left Brazil two days before the end of his mandate, shunning the investiture ceremony of his left-wing successor, Lula, to go to the property of a former champion of martial arts, José Aldo, in Orlando.
Aftermath of a stabbing attack
Bolsonaro was admitted to AdventHealth Celebration Hospital due to “severe abdominal pain”reported the daily “O Globo”, the day after a violent assault by his supporters against the presidential palace, the Congress and the Supreme Court of Brasilia, for which he denied any responsibility.
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Jair Bolsonaro, 67, has serious consequences from the stabbing that nearly cost him his life in September 2018, just before his election as president. Occlusions, subocclusions or intestinal adhesions: he has been hospitalized in emergency half a dozen times and reoperated six times since the end of 2018.
