US EditionBrazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro undergoes double hernia surgery
Bolsonaro, serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup, underwent a successful four-hour double hernia surgery authorized by Brazil's Supreme Court.
- On Thursday, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is undergoing double hernia surgery at a Brasilia hospital, expected to last about four hours; he has been hospitalized since Wednesday while serving a 27-year prison sentence.
- Doctors say his double hernia causes him pain, and the former leader Jair Bolsonaro underwent several surgeries after a 2018 stabbing.
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized visits for Bolsonaro's sons while hospitalized, and Michelle Bolsonaro is accompanying him during the surgery.
- His convictions include charges of leading an armed criminal organization and attempting to abolish democratic rule, and authorities say the plot targeted Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President, Geraldo Alckmin, Vice President, and Alexandre de Moraes, Justice, while Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing.
- While hospitalized, Bolsonaro's camp released a letter and party appointment to the media, with Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro confirming his Dec. 5 Liberal Party candidacy announcement.
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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro underwent successful hernia surgery after being granted permission by a court to leave prison for treatment.
A little more than a month after his imprisonment, former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, 70, left his private cell to go to the operating room. On the morning of Christmas he operated on a double hernia in the groin in a private hospital in Brasilia. The operation was planned, it was not an emergency, and it went smoothly. At the end, the medical team explained that Bolsonaro must spend between five and seven days in hospital. Continue read…
Radio France Internationale
The Brazilian ex-president Bolsonaro is in custody because of a coup attempt. Actually, he is lying in the hospital bed after an surgery. Nevertheless, he is not allowed to be detained. Probably also because he had tried to get rid of his shackle.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in prison for attempted coup d'état, successfully and uncomplicatedly overcame the operation he underwent on Thursday for a bilateral inguinal hernia, doctors said.
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was detained, has been operated on for a double-sided hernia. The intervention in a hospital in the capital Brasília has been successful, his son Flavio Bolsonaro told on platform X. According to a report from the news portal G1 the 70-year-old should now stay in the hospital for a week. The former head of state had to be operated on several times in recent years after he had been stabbed and severel…
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