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Jair Bolsonaro was operated for seven hours at Albertita Einstein Hospital. Intestinal injuries to the Israelite were inflicted during the blast attack that was inflicted four and a half months ago during the election campaign. The former captain entered the operating room at half-past six in the morning for an intervention of no more than three hours, as provided by public television. At 1 pm, mobile workers posted in the lobby of the São Paulo hospital began to ask government sources why the patient was still in the operating room.

Other questions circulated on the social networks before which the presidential son Eduardo replied "everything is fine". The tweet of MP Eduardo Bolsonaro was insufficient to appease the issues and some speculation that continued to grow until shortly after 15:30, when Plbadto Palace finally released a note on the "success" of the operation which has just ended. In the night, another report indicated that the president was in the intensive care ward "painless" and "stable".

Informational opacity has been a hallmark of Bolsonarianism. This was demonstrated during the presidential campaign and confirmed during these first 28 days of government. Yesterday, for example, there was no convincing explanation why he had spent nine hours in the operating room, but the intervention lasted seven hours. Medicine at the service of politics.

During the election campaign, doctors at the Albert Einstein hospital banned right-wing candidates from participating in a debate with his opponents the same day he was allowed to give an interview on privileged terms to the Evangelical Record. .

Whatever the true clinical picture of the leader who was yesterday at least seven hours in the operating room, his political health is delicate.

This is the reason for its urgency to take over the presidency tomorrow or Thursday at the medical center where an emergency cabinet has been set up, in which it will receive ministers and sign decrees, according to the presidential spokesman, the general Otavio Rego Barros.

The hurry is to shorten the interim presidency of vice president Mourao, with whom relations are tense.

It happens that whenever he can, General Mourao expresses differences with his superior, especially in matters of foreign policy.

While the president cultivates a conjugal bond with the United States and Israel, his vice proposes less intense relations, adapted to the equidistant tradition of the Itamaraty Palace, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Yesterday, while he was holding the presidency in Brasilia, the general challenged the hospitalized patient in Sao Paulo, meeting with the Palestinian ambbadador, Ibrahim Alzeben. After the meeting, the Arab diplomat said he had received news from his host that there was nothing specific about the transfer of Israel's embbady from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

This gesture was one of Bolsonaro's election promises, a topic he spoke to in late December with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Brazilian president intends with this measure to follow in the footsteps of his admired Donald Trump.

The disagreements between the vice president and the president may be the public manifestation of the army's discontent with the Bolsonaro clan, formed by the father and his three sons. This is indicated by the legislators of the Workers Party and the Party of Socialism and Freedom. The former PDP presidential candidate, Fernando Haddad, warned of the risk of a destabilizing plan drawn up by the disillusioned general with a former captain that he never stopped to see with some contempt.

The philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, ideological guru of Bolsonaro, reacted yesterday to the usual critics of vice president Mourao, describing him as a "coward".

Frictions between the military hierarchy and the family evolved prematurely as a result of a succession of chiefs of the president, but mostly because of the scandal of another son, Senator Flavio, with the "militias" paramilitaries of Rio de Janeiro. .

This week, when I take over the presidency of the medical center, one of the priorities will be to resolve the humanitarian and environmental crisis in Minas Gerais after the collapse of the Corrego do Feijao Mine wharf, which left at least 65 dead and hundreds of missing.

Shortly after arriving in his room last Sunday, Bolsonaro sent a message on the Internet about the agreement with Netanyahu on the shipment of 132 Israeli soldiers specializing in rescue operations, a help that would crown the friendship between Brasilia and Tel Aviv. For opposition Senator Roberto Requiao, the transfer of soldiers and 16 tons of equipment from Israel to Brazil, where the group will remain indefinitely, looks less like a humanitarian action and an operation directed to Venezuela.