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‘Will Lula’s win end Latin America’s far right turn?’: Our correspondent in Brazil answered your questions

Having lost the first round of Brazil’s presidential election to far right rival Flávio Bolsonaro, incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spectacularly triumphed in the second. The Guardian’s Latin America corrrespondent Tom Phillips answered your questions on what’s next for Brazil. Jeremy Hurley asks: Why did the Brazil stock market tank after the election result, and will it recover? Tom: Basically, because the markets had been convinced that Flávio Bolsonaro was going to win and that after taki