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Brazil’s “Big Center” were the big winners of this year’s municipal elections, despite being regularly demonized by the population. We explain who they are and how they work.
Just as Brazilians were starting to get used to their so-called new normal, a second wave appears to be on the horizon.
After weeks of gloating about its fast and efficient vote count system, Brazil’s election authorities were hacked during Sunday’s vote, raising cybersecurity fears.
The U.S. election process took days to confirm a winner. Were it to have taken place in Brazil, the entire vote count would have been wrapped up within a couple of hours.
Brazil’s Central Bank has launched PIX, its new instant payment system. We analyze what changes this brings to the country’s financial landscape.
Chile will be the neoliberalism tomb?
Jair Bolsonaro and São Paulo Governor João Doria are using the race for a vaccine as a sparring match before the 2022 election.
Almost two years since his election, President Jair Bolsonaro has cozied up to the establishment politicians he campaigned against — and his core supporters are incensed.
Municipal elections have a significant impact on national politics. And what happens in November 2020 will ripple over until 2022.
Some Latin American countries have been called out for not enacting social distancing rules during the pandemic. Others, for using them to repress specific populations.
Oh, you're a loaded gun!
Every single living former governor of Rio has been jailed at some point, and the incumbent governor looks set to face the same destiny.
Brazil’s second-quarter GDP results have been released and it’s official: the country is back in recession. We analyze how Brazil can recover.
Latin America had its first confirmed Covid-19 case on February 26. Six months later, the region is the world’s coronavirus epicenter. How have things gotten so out of control?
Álvaro Uribe is arguably the most powerful politician in Colombia, but he has been placed under house arrest for a fraud scandal. What does this mean for the country?
Ironically, Brazil’s mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis may lead to the country cutting the line in the race for a vaccine. This episode was supported by AMEC, the Brazilian Association of Investors in Capital Markets.
What changes for brazilian politics?
After months of reckless behavior, President Jair Bolsonaro has been infected with the coronavirus. And is trying to make lemonade out of it.
In this final episode of our series, we look back at the legend of that final, and then try and frame the legacy of the 1970 World Cup, both in Brazil and abroad.
Pelé is the greatest footballer of all time, and the 1970 World Cup in Mexico is seen as his crowning achievement. But just months before the tournament, people in Brazil thought he was finished.
The coronavirus has made regular meet-and-greet campaigns impossible. And that will favor political fake news rings.
As anti-racist protests break out around the world, we pick apart at the deep racial divides in Brazilian society and take a look at our own heritage.
Brazil saw anti-Bolsonaro protests this weekend. Does it mean that opposition to the far-right leader has finally come out of hibernation?
The world has abandoned chloroquine as a possible cure against the coronavirus. But Brazil’s Bolsonaro is doubling down on his bet.
If Covid-19 is a war, then heads of state must choose the fighting lanes that will cause the least casualties. Which is best? Enacting a lockdown, or reopening the economy? These economists believe they know the answer.
Jair Bolsonaro fought tooth and nail to keep his Covid-19 tests a secret. Johns Hopkins professor Filipe Campante explains what was at stake in this case.
Links to paramilitary mafias, poor economic results, controversial cabinet firings … and a botched pandemic response. None of this has dented Jair Bolsonaro’s core group of supporters. Until now. Originally aired in May 6th
Despite Brazil releasing updated figures on Covid-19 cases and deaths every day, inconsistencies in the data have left policymakers in the dark over the real spread of the virus. Originally aired in April 15th
Amid the worst pandemic in a lifetime, President Jair Bolsonaro has gone after his own Health minister, stopping just shy of sacking him. Originally aired in April 8th
Brazil’s employment rates will be decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally aired in April 2nd
While the world goes into self-isolation and governments pass stimulus packages to save their economies from collapse, the Brazilian president resists such moves, and wants “business as usual.” Originally aired in March 27th
By asking supporters to take to the streets and ask for the shutdown of Congress and “the end of the Supreme Court,” Jair Bolsonaro may finally have gone too far.
The implementation of 5G in Brazil still has many obstacles in its way, not least pressure from the country’s two leading trading partners.
131 Years After Abolition!
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