>Far-left Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva underwent emergency surgery last night to drain a brain bleed connected to a fall in October, the government wrote in a statement on Tuesday morning. >Lula's office released a statement on X, indicating the president "visited the Hospital Sírio-Libanês in Brasília last night (December 9) for imaging tests after experiencing a headache." >"The magnetic resonance imaging revealed intracranial hemorrhage, resulting from a domestic accident that occurred on October 19," the office said. >He was then immediately transferred to Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo unit, where doctors performed a craniotomy to drain the hematoma. >"The surgery proceeded without complications. At this time, the President is doing well, under monitoring in the ICU," the statement concluded. >The hospital attributed the intracranial hemorrhage to a fall he experienced at his home in mid-October, in which he had to cancel his attendance at the 2024 BRICS summit in Kazan, a city in southwest Russia, and his trip to the APEC summit in Peru. . . [Source](https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/brazils-lula-undergoes-emergency-brain-surgery-linked-october-fall)