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How Brazil's far-right operates

102

Lula's approval red flags

103

Far-right committees in Congress

104

Why you should care about Brazil's Cerrado

105

After rally, is Bolsonaro stronger or more in trouble?

106

Why Lula compared Israel to the Nazis

107

Is Brazilian agro in crisis?

108

Lula faces big fights in Congress

109

Major developments in Marielle murder?

110

How algorithms can be racist

111

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

112

Santa brings Lula a tax reform

113

Brazil and the G20

114

War coming to South America?

115

A highly political Supreme Court pick

116

Argentina's leap into the unknown

117

Hezbollah in Brazil?

118

Why São Paulo was left without power

119

Curb your tax reform enthusiasm

120

The Milei risk for Brazil

121

The end of the January 8 hearings

122

Brazil's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict

123

Milei knocking on the neighbor's door

124

Amazon faces risk of worst-ever drought

125

Lula's return to the UN General Assembly

126

Pinochet's Brazil

127

Bolsonaristas say "stay at home"

128

Erasing indigenous land claims

129

Time to add more BRICS?

130

Amazon oil drilling overlooks mangroves

131

Brazilian separatism?

132

Will justice be served for Mariana?

133

Bonus Episode: Brazil's shot at World Cup glory

134

A city swallowed by the ground

135

Threads of concern?

136

Better equipped to fight corruption?

137

Bolsonaro banned for good?

138

The Central Bank's Jekyll & Hyde moment

139

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

140

How YouTube helped pollute Brazil's public discourse

141

The legacy of June 2013

142

Lula not so green after all?

143

Brazil and effective multilateralism

144

Petrobras ends pricing parity policy

145

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

146

Web Summit Rio special

147

Explosive January 8 hearings about to begin

148

Lula's new world order

149

100-day summary

150

Bolsonaro trial nears verdict

151

Congressional cold war

152

A new fiscal anchor to navigate the storm

153

Marielle Franco, 5 years and many unanswered questions

154

A data breach as big as they come

155

Can Brazil tame social media?

156

Lula ❤️ Biden

157

Hacking Brazil's chief electoral justice

158

A pivotal moment for Congress

159

The Yanomami genocide

160

Brazil and China's twin crises

161

The Brazilian capital riots

162

A Brazilian reset

163

Pelé, the Brazilian king of the world

164

A rigged social ladder

165

Can the World Cup halt putschist protests?

166

Bolsonaro's climate legacy

167

Has Bolsonaro accepted the election results?

168

The last days before Brazil's presidential runoff

169

Five years of The Brazilian Report

170

Demons, Freemasons, and cannibalism

171

Brazil's election stunner

172

The election is here

173

What if Bolsonaro really tries to stage a coup?

174

The broad front gets broader

175

LIVE: Bolsonaro pushes Brazilian democracy to its limits

176

1822, Ep. 4: Pomp under circumstance

177

1822, Ep. 3: The pacifist myth

178

1822, Ep. 2: Independence or Death

179

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

180

Do presidential debates still matter?

181

Has the internet killed TV and radio political ads?

182

Deflation for whom?

183

Pro-democracy pushback

184

The state of monkeypox in Brazil

185

Electoral gears start to heat up

186

Anitta enters the presidential race

187

Fears of political violence grow

188

Bolsonaro is throwing money at his problems

189

A second swing at Bolsonaro

190

The president v. Petrobras

191

Where are Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira?

192

Is the Monroe doctrine dead?

193

Hunger haunts Brazil again

194

Who will face off against Petro in Colombia?

195

China raises red flags in Brazil

196

Lula launches lunge for legacy

197

Warning Biden

198

Bolsonaro rattles institutions. Could they break?

199

Jair calls time on the pandemic

200

Why Venezuela will lead the world in growth