Explaining Brazil

By The Brazilian Report

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News from Brazil, by The Brazilian Report — an independent media outlet uniquely positioned to offer an insider’s view of current affairs in Brazil.

Episode Date
Social security scandals, Brazil's emissions beef and a papal funeral
Apr 25, 2025
COP 30: are locals ready to shape policies?
Apr 23, 2025
Penal populism, agro jobs and Bolsonaro under the knife
Apr 18, 2025
Trump’s decline, Embraer’s rise, and Lula in a gun fight
Apr 11, 2025
Tariffs, loans and spy games
Apr 04, 2025
Special: Brazil braces for the tariff storm
Apr 01, 2025
Bolsonaro charged, egg exports rise, Brazil rethinks defense ties
Mar 28, 2025
Tax exemptions, rate hikes and voluntary exile
Mar 21, 2025
Inflation, digital transformation and trade war frustration
Mar 14, 2025
Special: How Brazil can navigate the Trump trade storm
Mar 11, 2025
Oscar wins, fake coffee and fiscal fiascos
Mar 07, 2025
Carnival, cabinet and crisis
Feb 28, 2025
Bolsonaro indictment, Trump's lawsuit and a shocking shift
Feb 21, 2025
Steel, drought and neopentecostalism
Feb 14, 2025
Trade wars, health alerts and oil
Feb 07, 2025
Brazil's Congress elects new leaders
Jan 31, 2025
Delaying the EUDR?
Dec 11, 2024
Lula in a currency chokehold
Dec 04, 2024
The tax reform gridlock
Nov 27, 2024
Taking stock of the G20 Summit in Rio
Nov 20, 2024
The Amazon at war - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil
Nov 13, 2024
How the U.S. election influences Latin America
Nov 05, 2024
A Brazilian MAGA?
Oct 30, 2024
The Pantanal's jaguars
Oct 23, 2024
Brazil has a gambling problem
Oct 16, 2024
What to make of Brazil's municipal elections
Oct 09, 2024
Has Lula's star dimmed?
Oct 02, 2024
Musk flinches in X standoff
Sep 25, 2024
Brazil on fire
Sep 18, 2024
The post-Bolsonaro Bolsonaro?
Sep 11, 2024
Brazil’s hidden racism: the truth behind the numbers
Sep 04, 2024
Cutting the Central Bank's cord?
Aug 28, 2024
X marks the spat
Aug 21, 2024
50 years of Brazil-China relations
Aug 14, 2024
Brazil's Olympic fever
Aug 07, 2024
Venezuela's vexed vote
Jul 31, 2024
Brazilian democracy: stronger than we thought? - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil
Jul 24, 2024
Can Lula fix his relationship with Congress?
Jul 17, 2024
Gun debate becoming ubiquitous in Brazil's Congress
Jul 03, 2024
Markets give Lula a Real reality check
Jun 26, 2024
Global ambitions, domestic neglect?
Jun 19, 2024
Strike as an environmental risk
Jun 11, 2024
The Brazilians evangelizing the Middle East - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil
Jun 07, 2024
Privatizing Brazil's beaches?
Jun 05, 2024
Taxing the tops
May 29, 2024
Lula switches on intervention mode
May 22, 2024
When tragedy becomes a culture war
May 15, 2024
Brazil, Britain and the slave trade - To Be Read: Where authors translate Brazil
May 12, 2024
The Rio Grande do Sul floods
May 08, 2024
Lula's farming feuds
May 01, 2024
Love It or Leave It, Ep. 4: Coup praisers, coup plotters
Apr 28, 2024
Ban the beef bros?
Apr 24, 2024
Lira's latest Lula feud
Apr 17, 2024
Love it or Leave it, Ep. 3: Cross-border persecution in South America
Apr 14, 2024
Elon Musk has beef in Brazil
Apr 10, 2024
Love It or Leave It, Ep. 2: Brazilian patriots with an American flag
Apr 07, 2024
Election hopes dashed in Venezuela
Apr 03, 2024
Love It or Leave It, Ep. 1: The dictatorship at a glance
Mar 31, 2024
How Brazil's far-right operates
Mar 26, 2024
Lula's approval red flags
Mar 20, 2024
Far-right committees in Congress
Mar 13, 2024
Why you should care about Brazil's Cerrado
Mar 06, 2024
After rally, is Bolsonaro stronger or more in trouble?
Feb 28, 2024
Why Lula compared Israel to the Nazis
Feb 21, 2024
Is Brazilian agro in crisis?
Feb 07, 2024
Lula faces big fights in Congress
Jan 31, 2024
Major developments in Marielle murder?
Jan 24, 2024
How algorithms can be racist
Jan 17, 2024
A year after Jan. 8, polarization shows signs of no abating
Jan 10, 2024
Santa brings Lula a tax reform
Dec 20, 2023
Brazil and the G20
Dec 13, 2023
War coming to South America?
Dec 06, 2023
A highly political Supreme Court pick
Nov 29, 2023
Argentina's leap into the unknown
Nov 21, 2023
Hezbollah in Brazil?
Nov 14, 2023
Why São Paulo was left without power
Nov 08, 2023
Curb your tax reform enthusiasm
Nov 01, 2023
The Milei risk for Brazil
Oct 25, 2023
The end of the January 8 hearings
Oct 18, 2023
Brazil's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict
Oct 11, 2023
Milei knocking on the neighbor's door
Oct 04, 2023
Amazon faces risk of worst-ever drought
Sep 27, 2023
Lula's return to the UN General Assembly
Sep 20, 2023
Pinochet's Brazil
Sep 13, 2023
Bolsonaristas say "stay at home"
Sep 06, 2023
Erasing indigenous land claims
Aug 30, 2023
Time to add more BRICS?
Aug 23, 2023
Amazon oil drilling overlooks mangroves
Aug 16, 2023
Brazilian separatism?
Aug 09, 2023
Will justice be served for Mariana?
Aug 02, 2023
Bonus Episode: Brazil's shot at World Cup glory
Jul 29, 2023
A city swallowed by the ground
Jul 26, 2023
Threads of concern?
Jul 19, 2023
Better equipped to fight corruption?
Jul 12, 2023
Bolsonaro banned for good?
Jul 05, 2023
The Central Bank's Jekyll & Hyde moment
Jun 28, 2023
Do-or-die moment for Mercosur and the EU?
Jun 21, 2023
How YouTube helped pollute Brazil's public discourse
Jun 14, 2023
The legacy of June 2013
Jun 07, 2023
Lula not so green after all?
May 31, 2023
Brazil and effective multilateralism
May 24, 2023
Petrobras ends pricing parity policy
May 17, 2023
Why the world should pay attention to Brazil's 'Fake News Bill'
May 10, 2023
Web Summit Rio special
May 04, 2023
Explosive January 8 hearings about to begin
Apr 26, 2023
Lula's new world order
Apr 19, 2023
100-day summary
Apr 12, 2023
Bolsonaro trial nears verdict
Apr 05, 2023
Congressional cold war
Mar 29, 2023
A new fiscal anchor to navigate the storm
Mar 22, 2023
Marielle Franco, 5 years and many unanswered questions
Mar 15, 2023
A data breach as big as they come
Mar 08, 2023
Can Brazil tame social media?
Mar 01, 2023
Lula ❤️ Biden
Feb 15, 2023
Hacking Brazil's chief electoral justice
Feb 08, 2023
A pivotal moment for Congress
Feb 01, 2023
The Yanomami genocide
Jan 25, 2023
Brazil and China's twin crises
Jan 18, 2023
The Brazilian capital riots
Jan 11, 2023
A Brazilian reset
Jan 04, 2023
Pelé, the Brazilian king of the world
Dec 07, 2022
A rigged social ladder
Nov 30, 2022
Can the World Cup halt putschist protests?
Nov 23, 2022
Bolsonaro's climate legacy
Nov 09, 2022
Has Bolsonaro accepted the election results?
Nov 02, 2022
The last days before Brazil's presidential runoff
Oct 26, 2022
Five years of The Brazilian Report
Oct 19, 2022
Demons, Freemasons, and cannibalism
Oct 12, 2022
Brazil's election stunner
Oct 05, 2022
The election is here
Sep 28, 2022
What if Bolsonaro really tries to stage a coup?
Sep 21, 2022
The broad front gets broader
Sep 14, 2022
LIVE: Bolsonaro pushes Brazilian democracy to its limits
Sep 07, 2022
1822, Ep. 4: Pomp under circumstance
Sep 06, 2022
1822, Ep. 3: The pacifist myth
Sep 05, 2022
1822, Ep. 2: Independence or Death
Sep 04, 2022
1822, Ep. 1: And Brazil was no longer a colony
Sep 03, 2022
Do presidential debates still matter?
Aug 31, 2022
Has the internet killed TV and radio political ads?
Aug 24, 2022
Deflation for whom?
Aug 17, 2022
Pro-democracy pushback
Aug 10, 2022
The state of monkeypox in Brazil
Aug 03, 2022
Electoral gears start to heat up
Jul 27, 2022
Anitta enters the presidential race
Jul 20, 2022
Fears of political violence grow
Jul 13, 2022
Bolsonaro is throwing money at his problems
Jul 06, 2022
A second swing at Bolsonaro
Jun 29, 2022
The president v. Petrobras
Jun 22, 2022
Where are Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira?
Jun 15, 2022
Is the Monroe doctrine dead?
Jun 08, 2022
Hunger haunts Brazil again
Jun 01, 2022
Who will face off against Petro in Colombia?
May 25, 2022
China raises red flags in Brazil
May 18, 2022
Lula launches lunge for legacy
May 11, 2022
Warning Biden
May 04, 2022
Bolsonaro rattles institutions. Could they break?
Apr 27, 2022
Jair calls time on the pandemic
Apr 20, 2022
Why Venezuela will lead the world in growth
Apr 13, 2022
Brazilian 'third way' crashes and burns
Apr 07, 2022
Petrobras merry-go-round spins again
Mar 30, 2022
What the (brief) Telegram ban means in Brazil
Mar 23, 2022
Gas prices put Bolsonaro in a bind
Mar 16, 2022
Brazil depends on Russia's fertilizer faucet
Mar 09, 2022
What happens when the police go on strike
Feb 23, 2022
How dreamy is Lula's dream team?
Feb 16, 2022
Brazil's Telegram problem
Feb 09, 2022
Brazil's risk of imported inflation
Feb 02, 2022
Between Moscow and Washington
Jan 26, 2022
Bad Neighbor policy
Jan 19, 2022
Bolsonaro picks a dangerous fight
Jan 12, 2022
Teaser: What to expect from 2022 Brazil
Dec 08, 2021
A new home for Bolsonaro
Dec 01, 2021
Brazil's vaccination success
Nov 24, 2021
Argentina's far-right lion
Nov 17, 2021
No longer a climate outlaw?
Nov 10, 2021
Will Chile get Kast away?
Nov 04, 2021
An obituary for Brazil's spending cap
Oct 27, 2021
The extent of Bolsonaro's pandemic crimes
Oct 20, 2021
Saving Mercosur
Oct 13, 2021
A president's worst enemy
Oct 06, 2021
Brazil's own Tuskegee Study
Sep 29, 2021
Peronism facing an existential crisis
Sep 22, 2021
Bolsonomics
Sep 15, 2021
How to react to Bolsonaro?
Sep 08, 2021
A nation holding its breath
Sep 01, 2021
Will Brazil have its own January 6 riots?
Aug 25, 2021
Should Brazil reengage in Haiti?
Aug 18, 2021
Companies face fines for data protection misdeeds
Aug 11, 2021
Getting vaccines to the heart of the Amazon
Aug 03, 2021
Coup or No Coup
Jul 28, 2021
Little transparency around presidents' health
Jul 21, 2021
Bolsonaro's Evangelical justice
Jul 14, 2021
Leite is no Milk
Jul 07, 2021
Cash for jabs
Jun 30, 2021
The Anti-Bolsonaro dilemma
Jun 23, 2021
The future of work in Brazil
Jun 16, 2021
Bolsonaro opens a military Pandora's box
Jun 09, 2021
A crisis in Angola threatens Bolsonaro
Jun 02, 2021
More variants, fewer vaccines
May 26, 2021
A president without a party
May 18, 2021
Testing Bolsonaro's endurance
May 11, 2021
Vaccine diplomacy in Latin America
May 05, 2021
The Brazilian Epstein?
Apr 27, 2021
Bolsonaro fighting on multiple fronts
Apr 21, 2021
What to make of South America's Super Sunday
Apr 14, 2021
A Brazilian vaccine on the way?
Apr 07, 2021
When political crisis becomes military crisis
Mar 31, 2021
RIP Car Wash, Part 2: Clash of titans
Mar 25, 2021
RIP Car Wash, Part 1: A tarnished legacy
Mar 24, 2021
Four ministers and 280,000 funerals
Mar 17, 2021
Brazil's pandemic nadir yet to come
Mar 10, 2021
The Brazilian people v. big mining
Mar 03, 2021
Bolsonaro's hand is not invisible
Feb 24, 2021
Flawed democracies
Feb 17, 2021
Trading 5G for coronavirus vaccines
Feb 10, 2021
Neither to the left, the right, or in the center
Dec 02, 2020
Has Brazil's second wave already begun?
Nov 26, 2020
Who tried to hack the Brazilian election?
Nov 18, 2020
What Brazil can teach the U.S. about elections
Nov 11, 2020
Banking transformation PIX up steam
Nov 04, 2020
Throwing Pinochet's legacy on the fire
Oct 29, 2020
Electoral calculations around Covid-19 vaccines
Oct 21, 2020
Bolsonaro steering away from Bolsonarism
Oct 15, 2020
Elections in the Time of Covid-19
Oct 07, 2020
When protection becomes repression
Oct 01, 2020
You give Brazil a bad name
Sep 23, 2020
Brazil's Supreme Court at a crossroads
Sep 16, 2020
Rio's descent into political hell
Sep 09, 2020
Reducing business complexity in Brazil
Sep 02, 2020
Six months of the coronavirus in Latin America
Aug 26, 2020
The Al Capone of Colombia
Aug 19, 2020
Brazilian football hits fever pitch, literally
Aug 12, 2020
Brazil's place in the race for a Covid-19 vaccine
Aug 05, 2020
Bolsonaro's ticket to re-election
Jul 30, 2020
Biden or Trump, what changes for Brazil?
Jul 22, 2020
Deforestation is bad for business
Jul 16, 2020
Bolsonaro is one in a 1.6 million
Jul 08, 2020
Violent effects of Brazil's job apocalypse
Jul 01, 2020
Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #3
Jun 25, 2020
Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #2
Jun 23, 2020
Special: How Brazil became the Land of Football #1
Jun 21, 2020
Covid-19 made Brazilian elections more exposed to fake news
Jun 18, 2020
Lifting the lid on a Brazil divided by race
Jun 10, 2020
Has the opposition to Jair Bolsonaro come to life?
Jun 03, 2020
Bolsonaro's "miracle" cure for Covid-19
May 27, 2020
The price of a human life
May 20, 2020
All the president's Covid tests
May 13, 2020
Why is support for Bolsonaro so resilient?
May 06, 2020
Moro puts Jair in the corner
Apr 29, 2020
Pandemic power plays in Brazil and the U.S.
Apr 22, 2020
Do Brazil's coronavirus numbers even mean anything?
Apr 15, 2020
Shopping for a new Health Minister
Apr 08, 2020
Brazil facing a job apocalypse
Apr 02, 2020
Brazil's public health enemy #1
Mar 27, 2020
20 rough weeks ahead
Mar 18, 2020
Is recession inescapable?
Mar 11, 2020
Should Congress impeach Jair Bolsonaro?
Mar 04, 2020
For Brazil, 5G can mean more than just fast internet
Feb 26, 2020
Human rights abuses, powered by CIA technology
Feb 19, 2020
Brazil’s climate crisis has already begun
Feb 12, 2020
Bolsonaro, season 2 begins
Feb 05, 2020
Coronavirus: the real risks for Brazil
Jan 29, 2020
PCC, Brazil's uber-powerful criminal brotherhood
Jan 22, 2020
Antarctica, Brazil's icy Amazon
Jan 15, 2020
One year of Jair Bolsonaro, explained
Dec 18, 2019
Some humans still own other humans
Dec 11, 2019
Latin America's dangerous game
Dec 04, 2019
Brazil's age of extreme politics
Nov 27, 2019
The turbulent path of Brazil's republic
Nov 20, 2019
How Lula's story explains Brazil
Nov 13, 2019
Can blockchain fix Brazil's bureaucracy?
Nov 06, 2019
Latin America's veins are wide open
Oct 30, 2019
Green and yellow (nuclear) submarine
Oct 23, 2019
Oil, Brazil's underwater treasure
Oct 16, 2019
Odebrecht's Peruvian wrecking ball
Oct 02, 2019
Bolsonaro flips off the world
Sep 25, 2019
How will Amazon Inc disrupt Brazilian retail?
Sep 18, 2019
Rio's war on a gay kiss
Sep 11, 2019
How Napoleon invented Brazil
Sep 04, 2019
WhatsApp-induced fires
Aug 28, 2019
Brazil's role on the global stage
Aug 21, 2019
Is Brazil capable of protecting the Amazon on its own?
Aug 14, 2019
Can Brazil approve a tax reform?
Aug 07, 2019
How Brazil's prisons became war zones
Jul 31, 2019
In Brazil, new terms and conditions will apply
Jul 24, 2019
Why Argentina's presidential election matters to Brazil
Jul 17, 2019
Discovering Rio's Little Africa
Jul 10, 2019
The Mercosur-EU trade deal, explained
Jul 03, 2019
Being LGBT in Bolsonaro's Brazil
Jun 26, 2019
Faith is a profitable business in Brazil
Jun 19, 2019
You can't spell Car Wash without leaks
Jun 12, 2019
Earth v. Bolsonaro
Jun 05, 2019
How to make a bad political climate worse
May 29, 2019
Brazil's census controversy
May 22, 2019
Is privatization the answer for Brazil's economy?
May 15, 2019
The business of Brazilian football
May 08, 2019
A look into Brazil's super-complex tax system
May 02, 2019
How should Brazil deal with China?
Apr 24, 2019
Why is the Brazil spying on Catholic priests?
Apr 17, 2019
After 1 year in jail, what will become of Lula
Apr 10, 2019
How Brazil deals with its past of torture and repression
Apr 03, 2019
The new face of Brazil's Operation Car Wash
Mar 27, 2019
When Jair met Donald
Mar 20, 2019
Marielle Franco, one year of impunity
Mar 13, 2019
The business of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
Mar 06, 2019
How to reform Brazil's pension system
Feb 27, 2019
Bolsonaro: Crisis Mode ON
Feb 20, 2019
Brazil's war on drugs failed. What next?
Feb 13, 2019
The rise of urban militias in Rio de Janeiro
Feb 06, 2019
How to recover from the Brumadinho dam collapse
Jan 30, 2019
How São Paulo killed its rivers
Jan 23, 2019
Brazil's infrastructure woes
Jan 16, 2019
Was Michel Temer that bad of a president?
Jan 09, 2019
What was Jair Bolsonaro's inauguration like?
Jan 02, 2019
Brazil's crackdown on sugar
Dec 12, 2018
Were you scammed during Brazil's Black Friday?
Nov 28, 2018
Racism in football
Nov 20, 2018
Coups and revolutions throughout Brazilian history
Nov 14, 2018
Brazil's challenges for the environment
Nov 07, 2018
The first challenges ahead of Bolsonaro
Oct 31, 2018
Special: Brazil elects Jair Bolsonaro (live podcast)
Oct 30, 2018
Brazil's critical transition
Oct 24, 2018
Solving Brazil's violence crisis
Oct 17, 2018
Brazil's political system in shatters
Oct 10, 2018
Special: Brazilian Constitution #4
Oct 05, 2018
Special: Brazilian Constitution #3
Oct 05, 2018
Special: Brazilian Constitution #2
Oct 05, 2018
Special: Brazilian Constitution #1
Oct 05, 2018
The final stretch of Brazil's presidential election
Oct 03, 2018
The downfall of Brazil's center-right
Sep 26, 2018
The state of Brazilian democracy
Sep 19, 2018
A whole new presidential campaign starts now
Sep 12, 2018
The destruction of Rio's National Museum
Sep 05, 2018
The role of social media in Brazilian politics
Aug 29, 2018
What has happened to the Brazilian left?
Aug 22, 2018
How do elections work in Brazil?
Aug 15, 2018
Interview: Guilherme Boulos, presidential candidate for Psol
Aug 15, 2018
Picking the right vice president in Brazil
Aug 08, 2018
Abortion rights in Brazil
Aug 01, 2018
Brazil and the BRICS
Jul 25, 2018
Diseases that could make a return in Brazil
Jul 18, 2018
Brazil's judicial system is a mess right now
Jul 10, 2018
LGBTQ inclusion in Brazil
Jul 04, 2018
Brazil's silent rise in opioid consumption
Jun 27, 2018
Brazil's relationship with its national football team
Jun 20, 2018
Brazil's nuclear program
Jun 13, 2018
Alternative energy sources in Brazil
Jun 06, 2018
Brazil's truckers' strike
May 30, 2018
Brazil and Mercosur
May 23, 2018
Racial inequality in Brazil
May 16, 2018
Innovation in Brazil
May 09, 2018
The Venezuelan crisis
Apr 25, 2018
Fake news in Brazil
Apr 18, 2018
Brazil’s Lula is in jail. What happens now?
Apr 11, 2018
Brazil's soft power
Apr 04, 2018
Meet Flávio Rocha, Brazil's newest presidential candidate
Mar 28, 2018
How Marielle Franco's assassination will shake Brazilian politics
Mar 21, 2018
Just how solid is Brazil’s economic recovery?
Mar 08, 2018
Can Brazil's Michel Temer win reelection?
Feb 28, 2018
Rio security intervention
Feb 20, 2018