Central3 Podcasts - Explaining Brazil

Is bad for business!

After months of reckless behavior, President Jair Bolsonaro has been infected with the coronavirus. And is trying to make lemonade out of it.

Of job apocalypse!

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.

An Brazilian Report Trilogy!

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

Round 1

Plays down here and in the U.S.

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

20 rough weeks ahead!