Will Brazil’s Lula halt the right-wing wave sweeping Latin America?

Brazil's President Lula da Silva, running for his third term, faces far-right Senator Flavio Bolsonaro in the presidential election. Latin America has seen a wave of right-wing electoral victories in countries like Colombia, Chile, and Argentina, supported by a renewed US policy aimed at reasserting American influence in the hemisphere. Lula has portrayed Bolsonaro as a representative of the expanding right-wing movement across Latin America.