“Bolsonaro is not here,” says a Florida hospital, surrounded by journalists

A hospital operator Orlando (Florida) where according to unofficial information he would be hospitalized Jair Bolsonoraro told EFE that the former president of Brazil It is not there, but numerous journalists are concentrated at its doors waiting for news.

The AdventHealth Celebration Hospital telephone operator limited itself to responding to EFE’s question in this way and did not want to answer another question to find out if Bolsonaro He passed through that center in the last few hours and has already been discharged.

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From Brazil, a source close to the former president told EFE that Bolsonaro He is hospitalized in Orlando. “Getting tested” for abdominal pain, without mentioning which hospital.

The ex-ruler’s wife, Michelle Bolsonaropointed out on social networks that her husband is “under observation” in the hospital for “abdominal discomfort”.

In the vicinity of the AdventHealth Celebration Hospital, EFE was able to verify that there was no unusual security device or presence of Bolsonarists.

There are journalists from local television channels and international news agencies, as well as a helicopter hired by a news outlet that flies over the hospital.

The news of the passage of Bolsonaro by the hospital is known a day after his followers seized the headquarters of the three state powers in Brasilia in order to remove Luiz Inázio Lula da Silva from the Presidency, whom they accuse of having stolen the elections from their leader.

Bolsonaro did not attend the inauguration of Lula da Silva on January 1.

View of the Advent Celebration Hospital, where former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted due to illness, according to a relative, in Orlando, Florida, USA. (REUTERS / Joe Skipper /)

Two days earlier, he traveled to Orlando while he was still president and settled as a guest at the home of José Aldo, a mixed martial arts fighter, who is his friend and admirer.

The Nossagente.com portal, which provides information to the important Brazilian community in Orlando, significantly did not echo the former president’s hospitalization.

Nossagente.com did publish information that shows that the ex-president is leading a life as a common citizen in Orlando, attested to by people who have come across him in pizzerias and commercial establishments and have greeted him and made contact with him. photos with him.

In the surroundings of the neighborhood where Aldo’s house is located, EFE was able to verify on Monday the presence of several people with shirts with the colors of the Brazilian flag who said they had come there with the purpose of greeting Bolsonaro.

Some of those people, like a woman who called herself “Sheila,” said she was there to tell Bolsonaro that she is grateful to him for “everything he has done for our country.”

“Sheila” pointed out that she does not recognize Lula da Silva as president, because “he is not legitimate”, in a reference to the unproven accusations that there was electoral fraud in the second round of the presidential elections, held on October 30. .

Lula da Silva won with a percentage of the vote just two points higher than Bolsonaro’s. In the first round the difference in favor of Lula was five points.

“Peaceful demonstrations, within the law, are part of democracy. However, vandalism and invasions of public buildings such as those that occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, are beyond the rule,” the former president said on his social networks on Sunday in a message about the events in Brasilia.

The retired Army captain repudiated in his message “the accusations, without evidence” made by Lula, who this Sunday reproached his predecessor for “stimulating” the coup acts of his most radical supporters.

Bolsonaro he has been hospitalized several times in recent years for intestinal blockages after being stabbed while campaigning for president in 2018.

Source: Elcomercio