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Explaining Brazil

The Brazilian Report

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

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44:33

Taking stock of an electoral shock

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/10/08

Lula finished Brazil's first round almost 2 points behind Flávio Bolsonaro, his weakest first-round result since 1998. Gustavo Ribeiro and historian James Green (Brown University) look at what went wrong for the president and what the October 25 runoff...

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39:52

Brazil's economy is growing. So why isn't Lula...

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/10/01

Brazilians vote on Sunday, October 4, and President Lula is asking for a fourth term on the strength of his economic record. Growth averaged 3% a year, unemployment is at a record low, and real wages are rising. His approval still sits barely above 40%...

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27:57

Flávio Bolsonaro upsets the gods

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/09/30

Brazil votes on Sunday, and the final week of the campaign has turned on religion. A rumor that a Flávio Bolsonaro government would strip Our Lady of Aparecida of her title as Brazil's patron saint has spread through Catholic circles. The Bolsonaro cam...

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65:09

How to read Brazil's election polls

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/09/23

Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro are statistically tied less than two weeks before Brazil's first round, and a flood of contradictory polls is feeding claims that pollsters are rigging the race. Rafael Nishimura, director of sampling operations at the Univers...

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41:02

Can Brazil's Supreme Court survive an election?

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/09/17

For years, Brazil's Supreme Court picked fights with Congress and the presidency. This month it turned on itself. On September 15, the full court sat for more than seven hours to answer a question it has dodged for 130 years, and walked away without an...

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36:03

Civil war at the Brazilian Supreme Court

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/09/09

Brazil's Supreme Court is facing what may be the worst crisis in its history. Justice André Mendonça unsealed the Banco Master investigation, exposing messages between the bank's former CEO and Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Now two factions of the court...

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38:03

The first surprise of the 2016 election

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/09/01

Two polls released Monday shook the political establishment. Augusto Cury, of the small Avante party, took third place in both: 11% in Nexus's survey, 7.8% in Atlas Intel's. The numbers force rivals and analysts to take Cury seriously for the first tim...

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43:50

What's wrong with the Brazilian Congress

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/08/20

Brazil's 2026 campaign is officially underway, and almost all the attention will be on the presidential race. That's a problem, because power in Brazil is increasingly won and lost in Congress — where the budget is controlled and where any president's ...

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34:39

A visa, a snub, and a reopened wound

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/08/10

The US State Department revoked the visa of Brazil's ambassador to Washington ( https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/us-brazil-ambassador-viotti-argentina-russia-putin ) and said the quiet part out loud: it is retaliation for Brasília withholding agr...

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27:23

Brazilian trade: Life after Washington

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/08/04

The US now takes less than 10% of Brazil's exports — the smallest share in decades — and Washington's tariff wall is accelerating a realignment that was already underway. Gustavo Ribeiro speaks with trade consultant Welber Barral, a former Brazilian fo...

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40:40

An imported playbook for Brazil's elections

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/07/24

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro used his turn at Debating Brazil — an event series in which Brazilian presidential candidates present their vision of the country to foreign ambassadors — to revive discredited claims about electronic voting fraud and to promis...

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46:18

Flávio Bolsonaro has a few problems to deal with

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/07/13

On this episode of Explaining Brazil, Gustavo Ribeiro, editor-in-chief of The Brazilian Report, talks with James Green, a historian at Brown University, about the fracturing landscape of Brazil's 2026 presidential race. Much of the conversation turns o...

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41:41

Brazil's crime syndicates are now terrorist...

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/06/02

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio designated the Comando Vermelho (Red Command, or CV) and the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital, or PCC) as foreign terrorist organizations. The Brazilian Report's editor-in-chief, Gustavo Ribeir...

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52:29

Lula meets Trump in Washington

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/05/08

Editor-in-chief Gustavo Ribeiro sat down with historian James N. Green to unpack Lula's recent meeting with Donald Trump. While the visit yielded no concrete trade breakthroughs, it has been cast as a diplomatic victory, bolstering Lula's domestic stan...

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48:28

Trouble ahead for Brazil-US relations?

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/04/23

What role will the United States play in Brazil's high-stakes 2026 elections? Join editor-in-chief Gustavo Ribeiro and historian James N. Green of the Brazil Office Alliance as they unpack the escalating tensions and potential for US interference in Br...

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8:03

Time to investigate Brazil's Supreme Court justices?...

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/03/19

Amid deepening polarization and the judiciary’s growing role in the country’s political life, Brazil’s Supreme Court has become accustomed to being rated poorly by a significant share of the population. In recent years, most of that opposition has come...

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12:42

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

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/03/05

Humanity has entered what scientists are calling an “era of water bankruptcy.” According to the United Nations University, many critical water systems around the world are so overused — through depletion, overallocation, land and soil degradation, defo...

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10:06

An indigenous victory against Cargill on the Tapajós...

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/02/27

Advances in oil exploration and the construction of railways and highways in recent years have shown that, when large infrastructure projects clash with matters of Amazon preservation, the Brazilian government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva tends to favo...

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6:46

Brazilian stocks’ record run (preview)

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/02/13

190,000 points. After a string of record highs that have been piling up since mid-January, the Ibovespa — the benchmark index of São Paulo’s stock exchange, the B3 — surpassed this historic threshold during Wednesday, February 11, closing the day just ...

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11:18

Brasília enters an election year on edge (preview)

Explaining Brazil ·

2026/02/05

Brasília is back to work — and the new legislative year has opened with all the familiar rituals: lofty speeches about stability, institutional balance, and dialogue, plus promises of an ambitious agenda ahead. But this is no ordinary year. Brazil is h...

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