New health concerns. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized in Orlando, Florida (southeastern United States), suffering from severe abdominal pain, several media announced on Monday, before his wife confirmed the information. He “is under observation” for “abdominal problems,” said his wife Michelle.
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.
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.
Aftermath of the attack that targeted him in 2018
He was admitted to the AdventHealth Celebration hospital because of “severe abdominal pain”, assured 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 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.