Brazil President Lula Faces Biden Parallels as Brain Surgery Raises Age Question

Rising inflation, a falling approval rating and a sharply divided country had put Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the cusp of the most difficult chapter of his long years in office even before he underwent emergency brain surgery.

Now, the operation raises difficult questions about whether the 79-year-old leftist leader is fit to meet the challenges that are piling up in front of him.