Bolsonaro’s Family Reports Health Worsening as Defense Seeks Humanitarian House Arrest

Overview

• Carlos Bolsonaro, who is with his father, says Jair Bolsonaro is vomiting constantly when awake and experiencing nocturnal hiccups with risk of bronchoaspiration.
• Allies who visited this week, including Deputy Marcel van Hattem, reported repeated hiccup episodes during a November 19 visit.
• Bolsonaro’s lawyers petitioned Supreme Court Minister Alexandre de Moraes for recognition of humanitarian domiciliary custody due to medical conditions.
• The filing lists reflux with pulmonary risk, recurrent or aspirative pneumonia, intractable hiccups, hypertension, heart and carotid disease, severe sleep apnea, skin cancer, and sequelae from the 2018 stabbing.
• Senator Flávio Bolsonaro called a vigil for November 22 in Brasília, while Bolsonaro remains under house arrest following a 27-year, 3-month conviction by the Supreme Court.