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Explaining Brazil — 389 episodes · page 1 of 4
A coin-flip runoff
Taking stock of an electoral shock
Brazil's economy is growing. So why isn't Lula polling better?
Flávio Bolsonaro upsets the gods
How to read Brazil's election polls
Can Brazil's Supreme Court survive an election?
Civil war at the Brazilian Supreme Court
The first surprise of the 2026 election
What's wrong with the Brazilian Congress
A visa, a snub, and a reopened wound
Brazilian trade: Life after Washington
An imported playbook for Brazil's elections
Flávio Bolsonaro has a few problems to deal with
Brazil's crime syndicates are now terrorist organizations
Lula meets Trump in Washington
Trouble ahead for Brazil-US relations?
Time to investigate Brazil's Supreme Court justices? (preview)
Brazil's water leverage. And its fault lines (preview)
An indigenous victory against Cargill on the Tapajós River (preview)
Brazilian stocks’ record run (preview)
Brasília enters an election year on edge (preview)
Banco Master and the Supreme Court: After the glory came the crisis (preview)
How the Mercosur-EU deal impacts Brazilian firms beyond exports (preview)
What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations? (preview)
Trump’s Venezuela play: How it reshapes South America’s risk map (preview)
Checks and balances turned into vendettas (preview)
What needs repair in Brazil's public sector machine? (preview)
Good COP? Bad COP? (preview)
Brazil’s Central Bank led a revolution (preview)
Supreme Court to Brazilians: “Follow the money” (preview)
COP30: Will climate action take root? (preview)
Who will be Brazil's next Supreme Court justice? (preview)
2026 election: A year away, what do polls say? (preview)
Brazil's tax system fuels income inequality (preview)
Self-serving politics (preview)
The PCC’s sprawling presence in Brazil’s economy (Preview)
Bolsonaro: from the barracks, to the presidency ... to prison? (preview)
Brazil's trial of the century (Preview)
Can Brazil own its digital destiny? (Preview)
The battle for control over Brazil's Congress (Preview)
Supreme Court places Bolsonaro under house arrest (Preview)
US tariffs: Brazil is negotiating with an “elected autocracy” (Preview)
Trump declares (trade) war on Brazil (Preview)
Social security scandals, Brazil's emissions beef and a papal funeral
COP 30: are locals ready to shape policies? (Preview)
Penal populism, agro jobs and Bolsonaro under the knife
Trump’s decline, Embraer’s rise, and Lula in a gun fight
Brazil braces for Trump's tariffs (Preview)
Bolsonaro charged, egg exports rise, Brazil rethinks defense ties
Tax exemptions, rate hikes and voluntary exile
Inflation, digital transformation and trade war frustration
How Brazil can navigate the Trump trade storm (Preview)
Oscar wins, fake coffee and fiscal fiascos
Carnival, cabinet and crisis
Bolsonaro indictment, Trump's lawsuit and a shocking shift
Steel, drought and neopentecostalism
Trade wars, health alerts and oil
Brazil's Congress elects new leaders
Delaying the EUDR?
Lula in a currency chokehold
The tax reform gridlock
Taking stock of the G20 Summit in Rio
The Amazon at war - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil
How the U.S. election influences Latin America
A Brazilian MAGA?
The Pantanal's jaguars
Brazil has a gambling problem
What to make of Brazil's municipal elections
Has Lula's star dimmed?
Musk flinches in X standoff
Brazil on fire
The post-Bolsonaro Bolsonaro?
Brazil’s hidden racism: the truth behind the numbers
Cutting the Central Bank's cord?
X marks the spat
50 years of Brazil-China relations
Brazil's Olympic fever
Venezuela's vexed vote
Brazilian democracy: stronger than we thought? - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil
Can Lula fix his relationship with Congress?
Gun debate becoming ubiquitous in Brazil's Congress
Markets give Lula a Real reality check
Global ambitions, domestic neglect?
Strike as an environmental risk
The Brazilians evangelizing the Middle East - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil
Privatizing Brazil's beaches?
Taxing the tops
Lula switches on intervention mode
When tragedy becomes a culture war
Brazil, Britain and the slave trade - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil
The Rio Grande do Sul floods
Lula's farming feuds
Love It or Leave It, Ep. 4: Coup praisers, coup plotters
Ban the beef bros?
Lira's latest Lula feud
Love it or Leave it, Ep. 3: Cross-border persecution in South America
Elon Musk has beef in Brazil
Love It or Leave It, Ep. 2: Brazilian patriots with an American flag
Election hopes dashed in Venezuela
Love It or Leave It, Ep. 1: The dictatorship at a glance