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Explaining Brazil — 394 episodes
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
How Brazil's far-right operates
Lula's approval red flags
Far-right committees in Congress
Why you should care about Brazil's Cerrado
After rally, is Bolsonaro stronger or more in trouble?
Why Lula compared Israel to the Nazis
Is Brazilian agro in crisis?
Lula faces big fights in Congress
Major developments in Marielle murder?
How algorithms can be racist
A year after Jan. 8, polarization shows signs of no abating
Santa brings Lula a tax reform
Brazil and the G20
War coming to South America?
A highly political Supreme Court pick
Argentina's leap into the unknown
Hezbollah in Brazil?
Why São Paulo was left without power
Curb your tax reform enthusiasm
The Milei risk for Brazil
The end of the January 8 hearings
Brazil's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict
Milei knocking on the neighbor's door
Amazon faces risk of worst-ever drought
Lula's return to the UN General Assembly
Pinochet's Brazil
Bolsonaristas say "stay at home"
Erasing indigenous land claims
Time to add more BRICS?
Amazon oil drilling overlooks mangroves
Brazilian separatism?
Will justice be served for Mariana?
Bonus Episode: Brazil's shot at World Cup glory
A city swallowed by the ground
Threads of concern?
Better equipped to fight corruption?
Bolsonaro banned for good?
The Central Bank's Jekyll & Hyde moment
Do-or-die moment for Mercosur and the EU?
How YouTube helped pollute Brazil's public discourse
The legacy of June 2013
Lula not so green after all?
Brazil and effective multilateralism
Petrobras ends pricing parity policy
Why the world should pay attention to Brazil's 'Fake News Bill'
Web Summit Rio special
Explosive January 8 hearings about to begin
Lula's new world order
100-day summary
Bolsonaro trial nears verdict
Congressional cold war
A new fiscal anchor to navigate the storm
Marielle Franco, 5 years and many unanswered questions
A data breach as big as they come
Can Brazil tame social media?
Lula ❤️ Biden
Hacking Brazil's chief electoral justice
A pivotal moment for Congress
The Yanomami genocide
Brazil and China's twin crises
The Brazilian capital riots
A Brazilian reset
Pelé, the Brazilian king of the world
A rigged social ladder
Can the World Cup halt putschist protests?
Bolsonaro's climate legacy
Has Bolsonaro accepted the election results?
The last days before Brazil's presidential runoff
Five years of The Brazilian Report
Demons, Freemasons, and cannibalism
Brazil's election stunner
The election is here
What if Bolsonaro really tries to stage a coup?
The broad front gets broader
LIVE: Bolsonaro pushes Brazilian democracy to its limits
1822, Ep. 4: Pomp under circumstance
1822, Ep. 3: The pacifist myth
1822, Ep. 2: Independence or Death
1822, Ep. 1: And Brazil was no longer a colony
Do presidential debates still matter?
Has the internet killed TV and radio political ads?
Deflation for whom?
Pro-democracy pushback
The state of monkeypox in Brazil
Electoral gears start to heat up
Anitta enters the presidential race
Fears of political violence grow
Bolsonaro is throwing money at his problems
A second swing at Bolsonaro
The president v. Petrobras
Where are Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira?
Is the Monroe doctrine dead?
Hunger haunts Brazil again
Who will face off against Petro in Colombia?
China raises red flags in Brazil
Lula launches lunge for legacy
Warning Biden
Bolsonaro rattles institutions. Could they break?
Jair calls time on the pandemic
Why Venezuela will lead the world in growth
Brazilian 'third way' crashes and burns
Petrobras merry-go-round spins again
What the (brief) Telegram ban means in Brazil
Gas prices put Bolsonaro in a bind
Brazil depends on Russia's fertilizer faucet
What happens when the police go on strike
How dreamy is Lula's dream team?
Brazil's Telegram problem
Brazil's risk of imported inflation
Between Moscow and Washington
Bad Neighbor policy
Bolsonaro picks a dangerous fight
Teaser: What to expect from 2022 Brazil
A new home for Bolsonaro
Brazil's vaccination success
Argentina's far-right lion
No longer a climate outlaw?
Will Chile get Kast away?
An obituary for Brazil's spending cap
The extent of Bolsonaro's pandemic crimes
Saving Mercosur
A president's worst enemy
Brazil's own Tuskegee Study
Peronism facing an existential crisis
Bolsonomics
How to react to Bolsonaro?
A nation holding its breath
Will Brazil have its own January 6 riots?
Should Brazil reengage in Haiti?
Companies face fines for data protection misdeeds
Getting vaccines to the heart of the Amazon
Coup or No Coup
Little transparency around presidents' health
Bolsonaro's Evangelical justice
Leite is no Milk
Cash for jabs
The Anti-Bolsonaro dilemma
The future of work in Brazil
Bolsonaro opens a military Pandora's box
A crisis in Angola threatens Bolsonaro
More variants, fewer vaccines
A president without a party
Testing Bolsonaro's endurance
Vaccine diplomacy in Latin America
The Brazilian Epstein?
Bolsonaro fighting on multiple fronts
What to make of South America's Super Sunday
A Brazilian vaccine on the way?
When political crisis becomes military crisis
RIP Car Wash, Part 2: Clash of titans
RIP Car Wash, Part 1: A tarnished legacy
Four ministers and 280,000 funerals
Brazil's pandemic nadir yet to come
The Brazilian people v. big mining
Bolsonaro's hand is not invisible
Flawed democracies
Trading 5G for coronavirus vaccines
Neither to the left, the right, or in the center
Has Brazil's second wave already begun?
Who tried to hack the Brazilian election?
What Brazil can teach the U.S. about elections
Banking transformation PIX up steam
Throwing Pinochet's legacy on the fire
Electoral calculations around Covid-19 vaccines
Bolsonaro steering away from Bolsonarism
Elections in the Time of Covid-19
When protection becomes repression
You give Brazil a bad name
Brazil's Supreme Court at a crossroads
Rio's descent into political hell
Reducing business complexity in Brazil
Six months of the coronavirus in Latin America
The Al Capone of Colombia
Brazilian football hits fever pitch, literally
Brazil's place in the race for a Covid-19 vaccine
Bolsonaro's ticket to re-election
Biden or Trump, what changes for Brazil?
Deforestation is bad for business
Bolsonaro is one in a 1.6 million
Violent effects of Brazil's job apocalypse
Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #3
Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #2
Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #1
Covid-19 made Brazilian elections more exposed to fake news
Lifting the lid on a Brazil divided by race
Has the opposition to Jair Bolsonaro come to life?
Bolsonaro's "miracle" cure for Covid-19
The price of a human life
All the president's Covid tests
Why is support for Bolsonaro so resilient?
Moro puts Jair in the corner
Pandemic power plays in Brazil and the U.S.
Do Brazil's coronavirus numbers even mean anything?
Shopping for a new Health Minister
Brazil facing a job apocalypse
Brazil's public health enemy #1
20 rough weeks ahead
Is recession inescapable?
Should Congress impeach Jair Bolsonaro?
For Brazil, 5G can mean more than just fast internet
Human rights abuses, powered by CIA technology
Brazil’s climate crisis has already begun
Bolsonaro, season 2 begins
Coronavirus: the real risks for Brazil
PCC, Brazil's uber-powerful criminal brotherhood
Antarctica, Brazil's icy Amazon
One year of Jair Bolsonaro, explained
Some humans still own other humans
Latin America's dangerous game
Brazil's age of extreme politics
The turbulent path of Brazil's republic
How Lula's story explains Brazil
Can blockchain fix Brazil's bureaucracy?
Latin America's veins are wide open
Green and yellow (nuclear) submarine
Oil, Brazil's underwater treasure
Odebrecht's Peruvian wrecking ball
Bolsonaro flips off the world
How will Amazon Inc disrupt Brazilian retail?
Rio's war on a gay kiss
How Napoleon invented Brazil
WhatsApp-induced fires
Brazil's role on the global stage
Is Brazil capable of protecting the Amazon on its own?
Can Brazil approve a tax reform?
How Brazil's prisons became war zones
In Brazil, new terms and conditions will apply
Why Argentina's presidential election matters to Brazil
Discovering Rio's Little Africa
The Mercosur-EU trade deal, explained
Being LGBT in Bolsonaro's Brazil
Faith is a profitable business in Brazil
You can't spell Car Wash without leaks
Earth v. Bolsonaro
How to make a bad political climate worse
Brazil's census controversy
Is privatization the answer for Brazil's economy?
The business of Brazilian football
A look into Brazil's super-complex tax system
How should Brazil deal with China?
Why is the Brazil spying on Catholic priests?
After 1 year in jail, what will become of Lula
How Brazil deals with its past of torture and repression
The new face of Brazil's Operation Car Wash
When Jair met Donald
Marielle Franco, one year of impunity
The business of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
How to reform Brazil's pension system
Bolsonaro: Crisis Mode ON
Brazil's war on drugs failed. What next?
The rise of urban militias in Rio de Janeiro
How to recover from the Brumadinho dam collapse
How São Paulo killed its rivers
Brazil's infrastructure woes
Was Michel Temer that bad of a president?
What was Jair Bolsonaro's inauguration like?
Brazil's crackdown on sugar
Were you scammed during Brazil's Black Friday?
Racism in football
Coups and revolutions throughout Brazilian history
Brazil's challenges for the environment
The first challenges ahead of Bolsonaro
Special: Brazil elects Jair Bolsonaro (live podcast)
Brazil's critical transition
Solving Brazil's violence crisis
Brazil's political system in shatters
Special: Brazilian Constitution #4
Special: Brazilian Constitution #3
Special: Brazilian Constitution #2
Special: Brazilian Constitution #1
The final stretch of Brazil's presidential election
The downfall of Brazil's center-right
The state of Brazilian democracy
A whole new presidential campaign starts now
The destruction of Rio's National Museum
The role of social media in Brazilian politics
What has happened to the Brazilian left?
How do elections work in Brazil?
Interview: Guilherme Boulos, presidential candidate for Psol
Picking the right vice president in Brazil
Abortion rights in Brazil
Brazil and the BRICS
Diseases that could make a return in Brazil
Brazil's judicial system is a mess right now
LGBTQ inclusion in Brazil
Brazil's silent rise in opioid consumption
Brazil's relationship with its national football team
Brazil's nuclear program
Alternative energy sources in Brazil
Brazil's truckers' strike
Brazil and Mercosur
Racial inequality in Brazil
Innovation in Brazil
The Venezuelan crisis
Fake news in Brazil
Brazil’s Lula is in jail. What happens now?
Brazil's soft power
Meet Flávio Rocha, Brazil's newest presidential candidate
How Marielle Franco's assassination will shake Brazilian politics
Just how solid is Brazil’s economic recovery?
Can Brazil's Michel Temer win reelection?
Rio security intervention