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SPECIAL EPISODE! Explaining Brasil Podcast

4 months ago • Caroline Coutinho and André Chiavassa

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Explaining Brazil #190: What the (brief) Telegram ban means for Brazil

The short-lived ban on Telegram was a way for Brazilian courts to draw a red line in the sand. But how Brazil will handle the app going forward remains murky — both legally and politically

6 months ago • Gustavo Ribeiro

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Explaining Brazil #142: Four ministers and 280,000 funerals

President Jair Bolsonaro has changed Health Ministers for the third time since the start of the pandemic

2 years ago • Gustavo Ribeiro

Public school teachers protest pandemic policies in São Paulo. Photo: Roberto Parizotti/FP

Explaining Brazil #141: Brazil’s pandemic nadir yet to come

During the pandemic, Brazil became something of an open-air laboratory, showing how new variants can develop when left to spread unchecked

2 years ago • Euan Marshall

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Explaining Brazil #140: The Brazilian people v. big mining

Mining giants have been let off scot-free from the consequences of environmental disasters. Brazilians are going after them on their own turf

2 years ago • Gustavo Ribeiro

A region of flawed democracies

Explaining Brazil #138: A region of flawed democracies

In Latin America, only three countries qualified as “full democracies.” Just as many as were classed as “authoritarian regimes”

2 years ago • Gustavo Ribeiro

Explaining Brazil #137: Trading 5G for coronavirus vaccines

Explaining Brazil #137: Trading 5G for coronavirus vaccines

How Brazil is using the country's upcoming 5G auction as a bargaining chip to receive more coronavirus vaccines

2 years ago • Gustavo Ribeiro

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Explaining Brazil #136: Neither to the left, the right, or in the center

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

2 years ago • Euan Marshall

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