Jair Bolsonaro posted a photo early Monday morning in which he is seen lying on a hospital bed, fitted with a nasogastric tube, giving a thumbs up as a sign of valor.
The Brazilian president, 66, himself explained on his Twitter account that he
"had felt pains on Sunday, after lunch"
and that he was suffering from intestinal sub-obstruction, a consequence of the attack on the knife that nearly cost him his life during the 2018 presidential campaign.
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This image of suffering moved his supporters but left the majority of the population unmoved, indifferent to the fate of a president criticized for his total lack of empathy towards the victims of Covid-19 or more recently refusing to interrupt
his holidays. by the sea to go to the state of Bahia, in the northeast, hit by catastrophic floods.
A serious handicap 9 months before the first round of the presidential election, when all the polls show the ex-left-wing president Luiz Inacio…
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