Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Stabbed in 2018, Hospitalized to Find Cause of Obstructed Intestine

President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro speaks during an event at Planalto Government Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on June 29, 2021. Andressa Anholete/Getty Images

BRASILIA—Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was transferred to a Sao Paulo hospital on Wednesday to undergo tests for an obstructed intestine, with the president’s office saying he could receive emergency surgery in complications from a 2018 stabbing on the campaign trail.

The Vila Nova Star hospital in Sao Paulo, where Bolsonaro, 66, was transferred, said late on Wednesday that the president would remain hospitalized “initially under conservative management.”