Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized and "
is under observation
" for "
abdominal problems
", his wife Michelle announced on Monday January 9, after reports from Brazilian media on an admission of the former Brazilian president to a hospital in Florida, in the United States. United States.
In her message on Instagram, Michelle Bolsonaro, however, did not specify the place of hospitalization of her husband, who left Brazil two days before the end of his mandate on December 31.
An attack in the middle of the presidential election in 2018
Several Brazilian media had previously announced that the ex-president had been hospitalized in Orlando, Florida (southeastern 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.
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He was admitted to AdventHealth Celebration Hospital due to "
severe abdominal pain
", the daily
O Globo
reported .
Bolsonaro, 67, has serious consequences from the stabbing that nearly cost him his life in September 2018, just before his election as president.
Several emergency hospitalizations
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.