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Explaining Brazil — 387 episodes

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Troubled ahead for Brazil-US relations?

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

Brazilian stocks’ record run (preview)

6

Brasília enters an election year on edge (preview)

7

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

8

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

9

What happened to Brazil-Venezuela relations? (preview)

10

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

11

Checks and balances turned into vendettas (preview)

12

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

13

Good COP? Bad COP? (preview)

14

Brazil’s Central Bank led a revolution (preview)

15

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

16

COP30: Will climate action take root? (preview)

17

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

18

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

19

Brazil's tax system fuels income inequality (preview)

20

Self-serving politics (preview)

21

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

22

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

23

Brazil's trial of the century (Preview)

24

Can Brazil own its digital destiny? (Preview)

25

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

26

Supreme Court places Bolsonaro under house arrest (Preview)

27

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

28

Trump declares (trade) war on Brazil (Preview)

29

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

30

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

31

Penal populism, agro jobs and Bolsonaro under the knife

32

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

33

Brazil braces for Trump's tariffs (Preview)

34

Bolsonaro charged, egg exports rise, Brazil rethinks defense ties

35

Tax exemptions, rate hikes and voluntary exile

36

Inflation, digital transformation and trade war frustration

37

How Brazil can navigate the Trump trade storm (Preview)

38

Oscar wins, fake coffee and fiscal fiascos

39

Carnival, cabinet and crisis

40

Bolsonaro indictment, Trump's lawsuit and a shocking shift

41

Steel, drought and neopentecostalism

42

Trade wars, health alerts and oil

43

Brazil's Congress elects new leaders

44

Delaying the EUDR?

45

Lula in a currency chokehold

46

The tax reform gridlock

47

Taking stock of the G20 Summit in Rio

48

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

49

How the U.S. election influences Latin America

50

A Brazilian MAGA?

51

The Pantanal's jaguars

52

Brazil has a gambling problem

53

What to make of Brazil's municipal elections

54

Has Lula's star dimmed?

55

Musk flinches in X standoff

56

Brazil on fire

57

The post-Bolsonaro Bolsonaro?

58

Brazil’s hidden racism: the truth behind the numbers

59

Cutting the Central Bank's cord?

60

X marks the spat

61

50 years of Brazil-China relations

62

Brazil's Olympic fever

63

Venezuela's vexed vote

64

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

65

Can Lula fix his relationship with Congress?

66

Gun debate becoming ubiquitous in Brazil's Congress

67

Markets give Lula a Real reality check

68

Global ambitions, domestic neglect?

69

Strike as an environmental risk

70

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

71

Privatizing Brazil's beaches?

72

Taxing the tops

73

Lula switches on intervention mode

74

When tragedy becomes a culture war

75

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

76

The Rio Grande do Sul floods

77

Lula's farming feuds

78

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

79

Ban the beef bros?

80

Lira's latest Lula feud

81

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

82

Elon Musk has beef in Brazil

83

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

84

Election hopes dashed in Venezuela

85

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

86

How Brazil's far-right operates

87

Lula's approval red flags

88

Far-right committees in Congress

89

Why you should care about Brazil's Cerrado

90

After rally, is Bolsonaro stronger or more in trouble?

91

Why Lula compared Israel to the Nazis

92

Is Brazilian agro in crisis?

93

Lula faces big fights in Congress

94

Major developments in Marielle murder?

95

How algorithms can be racist

96

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

97

Santa brings Lula a tax reform

98

Brazil and the G20

99

War coming to South America?

100

A highly political Supreme Court pick

101

Argentina's leap into the unknown

102

Hezbollah in Brazil?

103

Why São Paulo was left without power

104

Curb your tax reform enthusiasm

105

The Milei risk for Brazil

106

The end of the January 8 hearings

107

Brazil's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict

108

Milei knocking on the neighbor's door

109

Amazon faces risk of worst-ever drought

110

Lula's return to the UN General Assembly

111

Pinochet's Brazil

112

Bolsonaristas say "stay at home"

113

Erasing indigenous land claims

114

Time to add more BRICS?

115

Amazon oil drilling overlooks mangroves

116

Brazilian separatism?

117

Will justice be served for Mariana?

118

Bonus Episode: Brazil's shot at World Cup glory

119

A city swallowed by the ground

120

Threads of concern?

121

Better equipped to fight corruption?

122

Bolsonaro banned for good?

123

The Central Bank's Jekyll & Hyde moment

124

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

125

How YouTube helped pollute Brazil's public discourse

126

The legacy of June 2013

127

Lula not so green after all?

128

Brazil and effective multilateralism

129

Petrobras ends pricing parity policy

130

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

131

Web Summit Rio special

132

Explosive January 8 hearings about to begin

133

Lula's new world order

134

100-day summary

135

Bolsonaro trial nears verdict

136

Congressional cold war

137

A new fiscal anchor to navigate the storm

138

Marielle Franco, 5 years and many unanswered questions

139

A data breach as big as they come

140

Can Brazil tame social media?

141

Lula ❤️ Biden

142

Hacking Brazil's chief electoral justice

143

A pivotal moment for Congress

144

The Yanomami genocide

145

Brazil and China's twin crises

146

The Brazilian capital riots

147

A Brazilian reset

148

Pelé, the Brazilian king of the world

149

A rigged social ladder

150

Can the World Cup halt putschist protests?

151

Bolsonaro's climate legacy

152

Has Bolsonaro accepted the election results?

153

The last days before Brazil's presidential runoff

154

Five years of The Brazilian Report

155

Demons, Freemasons, and cannibalism

156

Brazil's election stunner

157

The election is here

158

What if Bolsonaro really tries to stage a coup?

159

The broad front gets broader

160

LIVE: Bolsonaro pushes Brazilian democracy to its limits

161

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

165

Do presidential debates still matter?

166

Has the internet killed TV and radio political ads?

167

Deflation for whom?

168

Pro-democracy pushback

169

The state of monkeypox in Brazil

170

Electoral gears start to heat up

171

Anitta enters the presidential race

172

Fears of political violence grow

173

Bolsonaro is throwing money at his problems

174

A second swing at Bolsonaro

175

The president v. Petrobras

176

Where are Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira?

177

Is the Monroe doctrine dead?

178

Hunger haunts Brazil again

179

Who will face off against Petro in Colombia?

180

China raises red flags in Brazil

181

Lula launches lunge for legacy

182

Warning Biden

183

Bolsonaro rattles institutions. Could they break?

184

Jair calls time on the pandemic

185

Why Venezuela will lead the world in growth

186

Brazilian 'third way' crashes and burns

187

Petrobras merry-go-round spins again

188

What the (brief) Telegram ban means in Brazil

189

Gas prices put Bolsonaro in a bind

190

Brazil depends on Russia's fertilizer faucet

191

What happens when the police go on strike

192

How dreamy is Lula's dream team?

193

Brazil's Telegram problem

194

Brazil's risk of imported inflation

195

Between Moscow and Washington

196

Bad Neighbor policy

197

Bolsonaro picks a dangerous fight

198

Teaser: What to expect from 2022 Brazil

199

A new home for Bolsonaro

200

Brazil's vaccination success

201

Argentina's far-right lion

202

No longer a climate outlaw?

203

Will Chile get Kast away?

204

An obituary for Brazil's spending cap

205

The extent of Bolsonaro's pandemic crimes

206

Saving Mercosur

207

A president's worst enemy

208

Brazil's own Tuskegee Study

209

Peronism facing an existential crisis

210

Bolsonomics

211

How to react to Bolsonaro?

212

A nation holding its breath

213

Will Brazil have its own January 6 riots?

214

Should Brazil reengage in Haiti?

215

Companies face fines for data protection misdeeds

216

Getting vaccines to the heart of the Amazon

217

Coup or No Coup

218

Little transparency around presidents' health

219

Bolsonaro's Evangelical justice

220

Leite is no Milk

221

Cash for jabs

222

The Anti-Bolsonaro dilemma

223

The future of work in Brazil

224

Bolsonaro opens a military Pandora's box

225

A crisis in Angola threatens Bolsonaro

226

More variants, fewer vaccines

227

A president without a party

228

Testing Bolsonaro's endurance

229

Vaccine diplomacy in Latin America

230

The Brazilian Epstein?

231

Bolsonaro fighting on multiple fronts

232

What to make of South America's Super Sunday

233

A Brazilian vaccine on the way?

234

When political crisis becomes military crisis

235

RIP Car Wash, Part 2: Clash of titans

236

RIP Car Wash, Part 1: A tarnished legacy

237

Four ministers and 280,000 funerals

238

Brazil's pandemic nadir yet to come

239

The Brazilian people v. big mining

240

Bolsonaro's hand is not invisible

241

Flawed democracies

242

Trading 5G for coronavirus vaccines

243

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

244

Has Brazil's second wave already begun?

245

Who tried to hack the Brazilian election?

246

What Brazil can teach the U.S. about elections

247

Banking transformation PIX up steam

248

Throwing Pinochet's legacy on the fire

249

Electoral calculations around Covid-19 vaccines

250

Bolsonaro steering away from Bolsonarism

251

Elections in the Time of Covid-19

252

When protection becomes repression

253

You give Brazil a bad name

254

Brazil's Supreme Court at a crossroads

255

Rio's descent into political hell

256

Reducing business complexity in Brazil

257

Six months of the coronavirus in Latin America

258

The Al Capone of Colombia

259

Brazilian football hits fever pitch, literally

260

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

261

Bolsonaro's ticket to re-election

262

Biden or Trump, what changes for Brazil?

263

Deforestation is bad for business

264

Bolsonaro is one in a 1.6 million

265

Violent effects of Brazil's job apocalypse

266

Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #3

267

Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #2

268

Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #1

269

Covid-19 made Brazilian elections more exposed to fake news

270

Lifting the lid on a Brazil divided by race

271

Has the opposition to Jair Bolsonaro come to life?

272

Bolsonaro's "miracle" cure for Covid-19

273

The price of a human life

274

All the president's Covid tests

275

Why is support for Bolsonaro so resilient?

276

Moro puts Jair in the corner

277

Pandemic power plays in Brazil and the U.S.

278

Do Brazil's coronavirus numbers even mean anything?

279

Shopping for a new Health Minister

280

Brazil facing a job apocalypse

281

Brazil's public health enemy #1

282

20 rough weeks ahead

283

Is recession inescapable?

284

Should Congress impeach Jair Bolsonaro?

285

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

286

Human rights abuses, powered by CIA technology

287

Brazil’s climate crisis has already begun

288

Bolsonaro, season 2 begins

289

Coronavirus: the real risks for Brazil

290

PCC, Brazil's uber-powerful criminal brotherhood

291

Antarctica, Brazil's icy Amazon

292

One year of Jair Bolsonaro, explained

293

Some humans still own other humans

294

Latin America's dangerous game

295

Brazil's age of extreme politics

296

The turbulent path of Brazil's republic

297

How Lula's story explains Brazil

298

Can blockchain fix Brazil's bureaucracy?

299

Latin America's veins are wide open

300

Green and yellow (nuclear) submarine

301

Oil, Brazil's underwater treasure

302

Odebrecht's Peruvian wrecking ball

303

Bolsonaro flips off the world

304

How will Amazon Inc disrupt Brazilian retail?

305

Rio's war on a gay kiss

306

How Napoleon invented Brazil

307

WhatsApp-induced fires

308

Brazil's role on the global stage

309

Is Brazil capable of protecting the Amazon on its own?

310

Can Brazil approve a tax reform?

311

How Brazil's prisons became war zones

312

In Brazil, new terms and conditions will apply

313

Why Argentina's presidential election matters to Brazil

314

Discovering Rio's Little Africa

315

The Mercosur-EU trade deal, explained

316

Being LGBT in Bolsonaro's Brazil

317

Faith is a profitable business in Brazil

318

You can't spell Car Wash without leaks

319

Earth v. Bolsonaro

320

How to make a bad political climate worse

321

Brazil's census controversy

322

Is privatization the answer for Brazil's economy?

323

The business of Brazilian football

324

A look into Brazil's super-complex tax system

325

How should Brazil deal with China?

326

Why is the Brazil spying on Catholic priests?

327

After 1 year in jail, what will become of Lula

328

How Brazil deals with its past of torture and repression

329

The new face of Brazil's Operation Car Wash

330

When Jair met Donald

331

Marielle Franco, one year of impunity

332

The business of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

333

How to reform Brazil's pension system

334

Bolsonaro: Crisis Mode ON

335

Brazil's war on drugs failed. What next?

336

The rise of urban militias in Rio de Janeiro

337

How to recover from the Brumadinho dam collapse

338

How São Paulo killed its rivers

339

Brazil's infrastructure woes

340

Was Michel Temer that bad of a president?

341

What was Jair Bolsonaro's inauguration like?

342

Brazil's crackdown on sugar

343

Were you scammed during Brazil's Black Friday?

344

Racism in football

345

Coups and revolutions throughout Brazilian history

346

Brazil's challenges for the environment

347

The first challenges ahead of Bolsonaro

348

Special: Brazil elects Jair Bolsonaro (live podcast)

349

Brazil's critical transition

350

Solving Brazil's violence crisis

351

Brazil's political system in shatters

352

Special: Brazilian Constitution #4

353

Special: Brazilian Constitution #3

354

Special: Brazilian Constitution #2

355

Special: Brazilian Constitution #1

356

The final stretch of Brazil's presidential election

357

The downfall of Brazil's center-right

358

The state of Brazilian democracy

359

A whole new presidential campaign starts now

360

The destruction of Rio's National Museum

361

The role of social media in Brazilian politics

362

What has happened to the Brazilian left?

363

How do elections work in Brazil?

364

Interview: Guilherme Boulos, presidential candidate for Psol

365

Picking the right vice president in Brazil

366

Abortion rights in Brazil

367

Brazil and the BRICS

368

Diseases that could make a return in Brazil

369

Brazil's judicial system is a mess right now

370

LGBTQ inclusion in Brazil

371

Brazil's silent rise in opioid consumption

372

Brazil's relationship with its national football team

373

Brazil's nuclear program

374

Alternative energy sources in Brazil

375

Brazil's truckers' strike

376

Brazil and Mercosur

377

Racial inequality in Brazil

378

Innovation in Brazil

379

The Venezuelan crisis

380

Fake news in Brazil

381

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

382

Brazil's soft power

383

Meet Flávio Rocha, Brazil's newest presidential candidate

384

How Marielle Franco's assassination will shake Brazilian politics

385

Just how solid is Brazil’s economic recovery?

386

Can Brazil's Michel Temer win reelection?

387

Rio security intervention