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Explaining Brazil — 389 episodes

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Brazil's crime syndicates are now terrorist organizations

2

Lula meets Trump in Washington

3

Troubled ahead for Brazil-US relations?

4

Time to investigate Brazil's Supreme Court justices? (preview)

5

Brazil's water leverage. And its fault lines (preview)

6

An indigenous victory against Cargill on the Tapajós River (preview)

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Brazilian stocks’ record run (preview)

8

Brasília enters an election year on edge (preview)

9

Banco Master and the Supreme Court: After the glory came the crisis (preview)

10

How the Mercosur-EU deal impacts Brazilian firms beyond exports (preview)

11

What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations? (preview)

12

Trump’s Venezuela play: How it reshapes South America’s risk map (preview)

13

Checks and balances turned into vendettas (preview)

14

What needs repair in Brazil's public sector machine? (preview)

15

Good COP? Bad COP? (preview)

16

Brazil’s Central Bank led a revolution (preview)

17

Supreme Court to Brazilians: “Follow the money” (preview)

18

COP30: Will climate action take root? (preview)

19

Who will be Brazil's next Supreme Court justice? (preview)

20

2026 election: A year away, what do polls say? (preview)

21

Brazil's tax system fuels income inequality (preview)

22

Self-serving politics (preview)

23

The PCC’s sprawling presence in Brazil’s economy (Preview)

24

Bolsonaro: from the barracks, to the presidency ... to prison? (preview)

25

Brazil's trial of the century (Preview)

26

Can Brazil own its digital destiny? (Preview)

27

The battle for control over Brazil's Congress (Preview)

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Supreme Court places Bolsonaro under house arrest (Preview)

29

US tariffs: Brazil is negotiating with an “elected autocracy” (Preview)

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Trump declares (trade) war on Brazil (Preview)

31

Social security scandals, Brazil's emissions beef and a papal funeral

32

COP 30: are locals ready to shape policies? (Preview)

33

Penal populism, agro jobs and Bolsonaro under the knife

34

Trump’s decline, Embraer’s rise, and Lula in a gun fight

35

Brazil braces for Trump's tariffs (Preview)

36

Bolsonaro charged, egg exports rise, Brazil rethinks defense ties

37

Tax exemptions, rate hikes and voluntary exile

38

Inflation, digital transformation and trade war frustration

39

How Brazil can navigate the Trump trade storm (Preview)

40

Oscar wins, fake coffee and fiscal fiascos

41

Carnival, cabinet and crisis

42

Bolsonaro indictment, Trump's lawsuit and a shocking shift

43

Steel, drought and neopentecostalism

44

Trade wars, health alerts and oil

45

Brazil's Congress elects new leaders

46

Delaying the EUDR?

47

Lula in a currency chokehold

48

The tax reform gridlock

49

Taking stock of the G20 Summit in Rio

50

The Amazon at war - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil

51

How the U.S. election influences Latin America

52

A Brazilian MAGA?

53

The Pantanal's jaguars

54

Brazil has a gambling problem

55

What to make of Brazil's municipal elections

56

Has Lula's star dimmed?

57

Musk flinches in X standoff

58

Brazil on fire

59

The post-Bolsonaro Bolsonaro?

60

Brazil’s hidden racism: the truth behind the numbers

61

Cutting the Central Bank's cord?

62

X marks the spat

63

50 years of Brazil-China relations

64

Brazil's Olympic fever

65

Venezuela's vexed vote

66

Brazilian democracy: stronger than we thought? - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil

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Can Lula fix his relationship with Congress?

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Gun debate becoming ubiquitous in Brazil's Congress

69

Markets give Lula a Real reality check

70

Global ambitions, domestic neglect?

71

Strike as an environmental risk

72

The Brazilians evangelizing the Middle East - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil

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Privatizing Brazil's beaches?

74

Taxing the tops

75

Lula switches on intervention mode

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When tragedy becomes a culture war

77

Brazil, Britain and the slave trade - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil

78

The Rio Grande do Sul floods

79

Lula's farming feuds

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Love It or Leave It, Ep. 4: Coup praisers, coup plotters

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Ban the beef bros?

82

Lira's latest Lula feud

83

Love it or Leave it, Ep. 3: Cross-border persecution in South America

84

Elon Musk has beef in Brazil

85

Love It or Leave It, Ep. 2: Brazilian patriots with an American flag

86

Election hopes dashed in Venezuela

87

Love It or Leave It, Ep. 1: The dictatorship at a glance

88

How Brazil's far-right operates

89

Lula's approval red flags

90

Far-right committees in Congress

91

Why you should care about Brazil's Cerrado

92

After rally, is Bolsonaro stronger or more in trouble?

93

Why Lula compared Israel to the Nazis

94

Is Brazilian agro in crisis?

95

Lula faces big fights in Congress

96

Major developments in Marielle murder?

97

How algorithms can be racist

98

A year after Jan. 8, polarization shows signs of no abating

99

Santa brings Lula a tax reform

100

Brazil and the G20

101

War coming to South America?

102

A highly political Supreme Court pick

103

Argentina's leap into the unknown

104

Hezbollah in Brazil?

105

Why São Paulo was left without power

106

Curb your tax reform enthusiasm

107

The Milei risk for Brazil

108

The end of the January 8 hearings

109

Brazil's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict

110

Milei knocking on the neighbor's door

111

Amazon faces risk of worst-ever drought

112

Lula's return to the UN General Assembly

113

Pinochet's Brazil

114

Bolsonaristas say "stay at home"

115

Erasing indigenous land claims

116

Time to add more BRICS?

117

Amazon oil drilling overlooks mangroves

118

Brazilian separatism?

119

Will justice be served for Mariana?

120

Bonus Episode: Brazil's shot at World Cup glory

121

A city swallowed by the ground

122

Threads of concern?

123

Better equipped to fight corruption?

124

Bolsonaro banned for good?

125

The Central Bank's Jekyll & Hyde moment

126

Do-or-die moment for Mercosur and the EU?

127

How YouTube helped pollute Brazil's public discourse

128

The legacy of June 2013

129

Lula not so green after all?

130

Brazil and effective multilateralism

131

Petrobras ends pricing parity policy

132

Why the world should pay attention to Brazil's 'Fake News Bill'

133

Web Summit Rio special

134

Explosive January 8 hearings about to begin

135

Lula's new world order

136

100-day summary

137

Bolsonaro trial nears verdict

138

Congressional cold war

139

A new fiscal anchor to navigate the storm

140

Marielle Franco, 5 years and many unanswered questions

141

A data breach as big as they come

142

Can Brazil tame social media?

143

Lula ❤️ Biden

144

Hacking Brazil's chief electoral justice

145

A pivotal moment for Congress

146

The Yanomami genocide

147

Brazil and China's twin crises

148

The Brazilian capital riots

149

A Brazilian reset

150

Pelé, the Brazilian king of the world

151

A rigged social ladder

152

Can the World Cup halt putschist protests?

153

Bolsonaro's climate legacy

154

Has Bolsonaro accepted the election results?

155

The last days before Brazil's presidential runoff

156

Five years of The Brazilian Report

157

Demons, Freemasons, and cannibalism

158

Brazil's election stunner

159

The election is here

160

What if Bolsonaro really tries to stage a coup?

161

The broad front gets broader

162

LIVE: Bolsonaro pushes Brazilian democracy to its limits

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1822, Ep. 4: Pomp under circumstance

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1822, Ep. 3: The pacifist myth

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1822, Ep. 2: Independence or Death

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1822, Ep. 1: And Brazil was no longer a colony

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Do presidential debates still matter?

168

Has the internet killed TV and radio political ads?

169

Deflation for whom?

170

Pro-democracy pushback

171

The state of monkeypox in Brazil

172

Electoral gears start to heat up

173

Anitta enters the presidential race

174

Fears of political violence grow

175

Bolsonaro is throwing money at his problems

176

A second swing at Bolsonaro

177

The president v. Petrobras

178

Where are Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira?

179

Is the Monroe doctrine dead?

180

Hunger haunts Brazil again

181

Who will face off against Petro in Colombia?

182

China raises red flags in Brazil

183

Lula launches lunge for legacy

184

Warning Biden

185

Bolsonaro rattles institutions. Could they break?

186

Jair calls time on the pandemic

187

Why Venezuela will lead the world in growth

188

Brazilian 'third way' crashes and burns

189

Petrobras merry-go-round spins again

190

What the (brief) Telegram ban means in Brazil

191

Gas prices put Bolsonaro in a bind

192

Brazil depends on Russia's fertilizer faucet

193

What happens when the police go on strike

194

How dreamy is Lula's dream team?

195

Brazil's Telegram problem

196

Brazil's risk of imported inflation

197

Between Moscow and Washington

198

Bad Neighbor policy

199

Bolsonaro picks a dangerous fight

200

Teaser: What to expect from 2022 Brazil

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A new home for Bolsonaro

202

Brazil's vaccination success

203

Argentina's far-right lion

204

No longer a climate outlaw?

205

Will Chile get Kast away?

206

An obituary for Brazil's spending cap

207

The extent of Bolsonaro's pandemic crimes

208

Saving Mercosur

209

A president's worst enemy

210

Brazil's own Tuskegee Study

211

Peronism facing an existential crisis

212

Bolsonomics

213

How to react to Bolsonaro?

214

A nation holding its breath

215

Will Brazil have its own January 6 riots?

216

Should Brazil reengage in Haiti?

217

Companies face fines for data protection misdeeds

218

Getting vaccines to the heart of the Amazon

219

Coup or No Coup

220

Little transparency around presidents' health

221

Bolsonaro's Evangelical justice

222

Leite is no Milk

223

Cash for jabs

224

The Anti-Bolsonaro dilemma

225

The future of work in Brazil

226

Bolsonaro opens a military Pandora's box

227

A crisis in Angola threatens Bolsonaro

228

More variants, fewer vaccines

229

A president without a party

230

Testing Bolsonaro's endurance

231

Vaccine diplomacy in Latin America

232

The Brazilian Epstein?

233

Bolsonaro fighting on multiple fronts

234

What to make of South America's Super Sunday

235

A Brazilian vaccine on the way?

236

When political crisis becomes military crisis

237

RIP Car Wash, Part 2: Clash of titans

238

RIP Car Wash, Part 1: A tarnished legacy

239

Four ministers and 280,000 funerals

240

Brazil's pandemic nadir yet to come

241

The Brazilian people v. big mining

242

Bolsonaro's hand is not invisible

243

Flawed democracies

244

Trading 5G for coronavirus vaccines

245

Neither to the left, the right, or in the center

246

Has Brazil's second wave already begun?

247

Who tried to hack the Brazilian election?

248

What Brazil can teach the U.S. about elections

249

Banking transformation PIX up steam

250

Throwing Pinochet's legacy on the fire

251

Electoral calculations around Covid-19 vaccines

252

Bolsonaro steering away from Bolsonarism

253

Elections in the Time of Covid-19

254

When protection becomes repression

255

You give Brazil a bad name

256

Brazil's Supreme Court at a crossroads

257

Rio's descent into political hell

258

Reducing business complexity in Brazil

259

Six months of the coronavirus in Latin America

260

The Al Capone of Colombia

261

Brazilian football hits fever pitch, literally

262

Brazil's place in the race for a Covid-19 vaccine

263

Bolsonaro's ticket to re-election

264

Biden or Trump, what changes for Brazil?

265

Deforestation is bad for business

266

Bolsonaro is one in a 1.6 million

267

Violent effects of Brazil's job apocalypse

268

Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #3

269

Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #2

270

Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #1

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Covid-19 made Brazilian elections more exposed to fake news

272

Lifting the lid on a Brazil divided by race

273

Has the opposition to Jair Bolsonaro come to life?

274

Bolsonaro's "miracle" cure for Covid-19

275

The price of a human life

276

All the president's Covid tests

277

Why is support for Bolsonaro so resilient?

278

Moro puts Jair in the corner

279

Pandemic power plays in Brazil and the U.S.

280

Do Brazil's coronavirus numbers even mean anything?

281

Shopping for a new Health Minister

282

Brazil facing a job apocalypse

283

Brazil's public health enemy #1

284

20 rough weeks ahead

285

Is recession inescapable?

286

Should Congress impeach Jair Bolsonaro?

287

For Brazil, 5G can mean more than just fast internet

288

Human rights abuses, powered by CIA technology

289

Brazil’s climate crisis has already begun

290

Bolsonaro, season 2 begins

291

Coronavirus: the real risks for Brazil

292

PCC, Brazil's uber-powerful criminal brotherhood

293

Antarctica, Brazil's icy Amazon

294

One year of Jair Bolsonaro, explained

295

Some humans still own other humans

296

Latin America's dangerous game

297

Brazil's age of extreme politics

298

The turbulent path of Brazil's republic

299

How Lula's story explains Brazil

300

Can blockchain fix Brazil's bureaucracy?

301

Latin America's veins are wide open

302

Green and yellow (nuclear) submarine

303

Oil, Brazil's underwater treasure

304

Odebrecht's Peruvian wrecking ball

305

Bolsonaro flips off the world

306

How will Amazon Inc disrupt Brazilian retail?

307

Rio's war on a gay kiss

308

How Napoleon invented Brazil

309

WhatsApp-induced fires

310

Brazil's role on the global stage

311

Is Brazil capable of protecting the Amazon on its own?

312

Can Brazil approve a tax reform?

313

How Brazil's prisons became war zones

314

In Brazil, new terms and conditions will apply

315

Why Argentina's presidential election matters to Brazil

316

Discovering Rio's Little Africa

317

The Mercosur-EU trade deal, explained

318

Being LGBT in Bolsonaro's Brazil

319

Faith is a profitable business in Brazil

320

You can't spell Car Wash without leaks

321

Earth v. Bolsonaro

322

How to make a bad political climate worse

323

Brazil's census controversy

324

Is privatization the answer for Brazil's economy?

325

The business of Brazilian football

326

A look into Brazil's super-complex tax system

327

How should Brazil deal with China?

328

Why is the Brazil spying on Catholic priests?

329

After 1 year in jail, what will become of Lula

330

How Brazil deals with its past of torture and repression

331

The new face of Brazil's Operation Car Wash

332

When Jair met Donald

333

Marielle Franco, one year of impunity

334

The business of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

335

How to reform Brazil's pension system

336

Bolsonaro: Crisis Mode ON

337

Brazil's war on drugs failed. What next?

338

The rise of urban militias in Rio de Janeiro

339

How to recover from the Brumadinho dam collapse

340

How São Paulo killed its rivers

341

Brazil's infrastructure woes

342

Was Michel Temer that bad of a president?

343

What was Jair Bolsonaro's inauguration like?

344

Brazil's crackdown on sugar

345

Were you scammed during Brazil's Black Friday?

346

Racism in football

347

Coups and revolutions throughout Brazilian history

348

Brazil's challenges for the environment

349

The first challenges ahead of Bolsonaro

350

Special: Brazil elects Jair Bolsonaro (live podcast)

351

Brazil's critical transition

352

Solving Brazil's violence crisis

353

Brazil's political system in shatters

354

Special: Brazilian Constitution #4

355

Special: Brazilian Constitution #3

356

Special: Brazilian Constitution #2

357

Special: Brazilian Constitution #1

358

The final stretch of Brazil's presidential election

359

The downfall of Brazil's center-right

360

The state of Brazilian democracy

361

A whole new presidential campaign starts now

362

The destruction of Rio's National Museum

363

The role of social media in Brazilian politics

364

What has happened to the Brazilian left?

365

How do elections work in Brazil?

366

Interview: Guilherme Boulos, presidential candidate for Psol

367

Picking the right vice president in Brazil

368

Abortion rights in Brazil

369

Brazil and the BRICS

370

Diseases that could make a return in Brazil

371

Brazil's judicial system is a mess right now

372

LGBTQ inclusion in Brazil

373

Brazil's silent rise in opioid consumption

374

Brazil's relationship with its national football team

375

Brazil's nuclear program

376

Alternative energy sources in Brazil

377

Brazil's truckers' strike

378

Brazil and Mercosur

379

Racial inequality in Brazil

380

Innovation in Brazil

381

The Venezuelan crisis

382

Fake news in Brazil

383

Brazil’s Lula is in jail. What happens now?

384

Brazil's soft power

385

Meet Flávio Rocha, Brazil's newest presidential candidate

386

How Marielle Franco's assassination will shake Brazilian politics

387

Just how solid is Brazil’s economic recovery?

388

Can Brazil's Michel Temer win reelection?

389

Rio security intervention