Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 79, has been on a whirlwind ... The president underwent emergency surgery to stop a brain bleed in December, a few months after he suffered a fall.

"The operation went without complications" on Monday night, and Lula was "doing well, under monitoring" in an intensive care unit, the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo said in a statement ...

The 79-year-old says he is "I am here, alive, whole" after emergency surgery this week ... elect before he could take office. Janja Lula da Silva joked that she was not afraid of the owner ...