Bolsonaro undergoes medical procedure to treat severe hiccups

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, underwent a medical procedure on Saturday afternoon at a hospital in Brasília to treat a bout of persistent hiccups.

The intervention, described as successful by his medical team in a Saturday press conference, involved blocking the phrenic nerve, which runs from the neck to the diaphragm. Saturday’s procedure was on Bolsonaro’s right side. A second procedure is scheduled for Monday to block the same nerve on the opposite side.

On Thursday...