This is CBS. Hi on the World. I'm John Batchel, the New World Report with Professor Avan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. He's traveling. He's in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. We're headed to Brazil where there's an unknown risk. Headline, Brazilian President Lula recovering

in hospital after emergency brain surgery. The surgeon points to an intensive care unit on

these last hours where the doctor said the president after being rushed to

Sal Palo Hospital for emergency surgery to drain a bleed on its brain is now resting and recovering.

However, there are unknowns here.

And I mentioned this is connected to a fall in the bathroom, in the shower, some weeks ago where the president

was momentarily not able to discharge his duties to a couple of international meetings.

However, then there were photographs and statements to say he recovered entirely from a mild concussion had gone back to work.

Now it looks completely different.

There was a hematoma opening, small bleeding in the brain, and the doctor worked very

effectively so far.

The most are giving us a stable condition.

Professor, I mentioned this because it's the unknown of geopolitics.

Lula de Silva is a controversial figure after his first two terms and led him to a jail cell.

Now he's a controversial figure because of his opposition to the previous President Bolsonaro

and the pursuit of Bolsonaro by a man named DeMarice,

the Supreme Court Justice, who not only was instrumental in releasing Lula de Silva from jail

so that he could run for the presidency,

but also has been the lead pursuer of Bolsonaro and its colleagues in the new

administration. So Lula de Silva's absence, however long it is, or weakness at the top,

suggests to me that there's instability ahead. Am I being too generalized or do you see the risk here? We've talked about this in a number of

previous programs and I have personally had the people close to me also with concussions, brain

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