Central3 Podcasts - Explaining Brazil

The delicate structure of the beautiful game!

Here comes the Lion!

Jair Bolsonaro has been ambivalent towards China, the Asian juggernaut that is—by far—Brazil’s top trading partner. But that could change soon. Guests: Charles Tang (head of the Brazil-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry), and Mauricio Santoro (Head of the Department of International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro).

The Church’s efforts to protect the Amazon and indigenous people led Brazil’s intelligence agency to spy on Catholic priests. Featuring the following guests: journalists Mauricio Savarese, Paula Schmitt, Rubens Valente (and voice-over of Alex Hochuli).

After 1 year in jail!

55 years from the Coup! Nothing to celebrate

Come on and sing it with me!

For the first time, we were able to witness the bromance between Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump on full display. Has the Brazilian president come out strong from his visit to Washington?

One year of impunity!

Carnival is such a focal point of the Brazilian calendar that often locals say nothing gets done in the new year until Ash Wednesday. But, in actual fact, a huge amount of work goes into producing Carnival, and that’s what we are going to take a look at this week.

Will Bolsonaro be able to succeed where so many others failed?

In less than 2 months!

Imagine you are a Brazilian soybean producer located in the state of Mato Grosso, deep in midwestern Brazil, neighboring Bolivia. And you have clients waiting for your products in China. So, how do you get your soybeans to your Chinese customers? What would you say if I told you that the drive between your silos […]

What next?

On February 4, Justice Minister Sergio Moro presented his first bill after taking office. His anticrime plan, as the set of proposals was called, includes several measures against organized crime. And, for the first time, it singles out urban militias as one of the targets of the state. It may seem ludicrous, but urban armed […]

On January 25, an iron tailings dam near the town of Brumadinho, in the Southeastern state of Minas Gerais, spilled the equivalent of at least 12 hundred Olympic-sized pools of mud onto the surrounding region. -How did this happen? -Who is to blame? -What will be the lasting environmental consequences? -And, most importantly, how can […]

If you live in or have even been to São Paulo, it is likely that you’ve walked over a waterway without even noticing it. There are between 300 and 500 of them in Brazil’s biggest city, running through pipes extending from 1,500km to 4,000km. And the fate of the city’s main rivers doesn’t have a […]

Good Hollydays!

Did you mean Black Fraud?

We host Marcel Diego Tonini, from Ludopédio!