After a 17-day recovery, Bolsonaro left the San Pablo Hospital

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro received a medical discharge yesterday after 17 days at the Albert Einstein hospital in San Pablo to undergo an operation in the abdomen, the spokesman said. Presidency, Otavio do Rego Barros.

Bolsonaro left the hospital and went to Congonhas airport, from where he took off for Brasilia in a Brazilian air force plane. around 1 pm local time.

According to the medical bulletin published by the hospital soon after the departure of the president, Bolsonaro "was discharged this morning with normalized pulmonary symptoms, without pain (…), with a restored bowel function and a light diet orally".

The medical bulletin indicates that during his hospitalization, the president "performed respiratory and motor physical therapy exercises, with periods of release from the room".

He adds that "preventive measures for venous thrombosis have also been adopted".

Bolsonaro said his medical hospital outing had been pbaded on the social network Twitter, who also remembered the stabbing received in early September of last year when he was in hospital. an election campaign.

"There have been 3 surgeries and more than a month in the hospital in the last 5 months, we finally let the risk of death after the badbadination attempt of an old member of the PSOL (Socialist Party and Freedom), "wrote the president.

"I just have to thank God and everyone else for finally being able to return to work in all normalcy," he added.

USA

A Brazilian general will integrate for the first time in history an important position in the Southern Command of the US Armed Forces, as part of the rapprochement between the governments of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, said a spokesman for the Brazilian Ministry of Defense.

The agreement is known during this week's visit by Admiral Craig Faller, head of Southern Command in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, where he met with local military leaders and the Minister of Foreign Affairs , Ernesto Araújo.

"This is the first time that Brazil will be in the subcommand badigned to foreigners," said the source quoted by Telam.

In the Brazilian government, they believe that this move brings them even closer to their current strategic position vis-à-vis the United States, hoping for a meeting in the White House in March between Trump and Bolsonaro. According to the spokesman, there are still no details about the general who will be sent to US Southern Command or the duration of the mission.

Brazil will now have a representative of the Pentagon sector in charge of Latin America alongside the military leaders of Chile and Colombia, the spokesman said.

Admiral Faller met Monday in Brasilia with Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, who considers Trump in his writings as the "savior of the West" before what he calls "globalism" and "Cultural Marxism".

Brazil is scheduled to send in the course of 2019 a general to serve as vice commander of Southern Command interoperability. Before going to Brazil, Faller traveled to Colombia, Salvador and Guatemala.