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La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 16, 2024, p. 23
Sao Paulo., Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was released from the hospital yesterday after undergoing surgery to stop a brain hemorrhage.
The 79-year-old president spoke alongside doctors at a press conference in a sign that he was feeling well after the operation.
I’m here alive, well, wanting to work. And I’ll tell you something I used to say during the campaign. I am 79 years old, I have the energy of a 30 and the enthusiasm of a 20 to build this countrysaid Lula.
His medical team said the surgery was a success and that Lula will be able to walk and hold meetings while resting at his home in the city of Sao Paulo until Thursday.
The doctors added that international travel was out of the question until further notice, but that the president could travel to the country’s capital, Brasilia, if everything goes well in his medical examination.
▲ Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, yesterday.Photo Afp
The president offered his first comments on Saturday’s arrest of Gen. Walter Braga Netto, a former member of President Jair Bolsonaro’s government and his 2022 running mate, in connection with investigations into an alleged coup plot. Lula has largely avoided commenting on the case due to ongoing investigations.
It is not possible for us to accept lack of respect for democracy, for the Constitution, nor for us to accept that in a generous country like Brazil we have high-ranking military people plotting the death of a president, his vice president and a president of the highest electoral court.said Lula.
Braga Netto was accused in November, along with Bolsonaro and 35 others, of plotting a coup to keep Bolsonaro in office after his failed re-election in 2022.
