Jair Bolsonaro is admitted to a hospital in the United States for severe abdominal pain

The former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro He was admitted to a hospital in Orlando, Florida, with “abdominal pain,” the newspaper O Globo reported Monday, a day after some of his staunch supporters stormed public and government buildings in Brasilia.

A source close to the family of Bolsonaro He said the status is “not of concern.”

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Bolsonaro he has been hospitalized multiple times in recent years with intestinal obstructions after being stabbed while campaigning for president in 2018.

The former right-wing ruler traveled to the United States two days before Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva assumed the presidency of the South American nation.

“He is hospitalized in Orlando. Taking tests ”for some abdominal pain, a source close to the ex-president told EFE about his state of health.

According to the Brazilian press, the former head of state is at the AdventHealth Celebration in Orlandoin the state of Floridaalthough an operator of that clinic assured EFE that the political leader is not there.

The Brazilian source pointed out that these complications in the digestive system are a consequence of the stab wound that Bolsonaro received on September 6, 2018 during an electoral act in the city of Juiz de Fora, and for which he had to undergo surgery several times.

As a consequence of this attack, the retired Army captain has also suffered digestive system problems that forced him to be hospitalized on various occasions during his tenure, which began in January 2019 and ended on December 31, 2022.

One of the last times he was admitted was in January of last year, although that time it was not necessary to operate and the intestinal obstruction that he suffered from was undone with the passage of a probe.

Bolsonaro left Brazil on December 30, two days before Lula’s inauguration.whom he has not yet congratulated on his victory in the elections last October, and headed for Florida with no official plan to return to his country.

His hospitalization coincides with the frustrated Coup attempt carried out on Sunday by thousands of his most radical followers in Brasilia, where they invaded and vandalized the headquarters of Parliament, the Presidency and the Supreme Court for four and a half hours.

Bolsonaro He mildly rejected the insurrection of his supporters and charged against Lula, who accused the now ex-governor of “stimulating” his supporters to attack Brazilian democracy.

Source: Elcomercio

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