Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Is Diagnosed With Skin Cancer Days After Coup Conviction

Jair Bolsonaro.

Photographer: Arthur Menescal/Bloomberg

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was diagnosed with skin cancer, his doctor said on Wednesday, adding to the right-wing leader’s health and legal woes just days after he was convicted of plotting a coup.

Bolsonaro had eight skin lesions removed on Sunday, according to Claudio Birolini, the doctor treating the onetime president. A biopsy found squamous cell carcinoma in two of them — one on his chest and another on his arm.