Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has undergone emergency surgery to drain a bleed on his brain.

The leftist leader, 79, underwent the procedure after an MRI scan showed an “intracranial hemorrhage,” according to an Associated Press translation of a medical note published on his official X account Tuesday.

The surgery was successful and Lula is “well” and currently being monitored in the intensive care unit of Sirio Libanes hospital in Sao Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, a…