Central3 Podcasts - Explaining Brazil

Throughout history!

To discuss this topic, we spoke with Gustavo Faleiros, coordinator of the organization Info Amazônia, a network of organizations and journalists which deliver updates from the nine countries of the Amazon rainforest.

Of the future Bolsonaro administration!

The conservative wave that swept across the country marks a major rupture. Or, instead, a critical transition – a concept developed by professors Carlos Pereira (FGV), Bernardo Mueller (UnB), Marcus Mello (UFPE) and Lee Alston (Indiana University) in their book Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change.

We host Felippe Angeli, from Instituto Sou da Paz!

We analyze the reasons for the conservative tsunami that swept Brazil’s 2018 election. Three main factors come into play.

Two days until October 7th!

First episode about the 30th anniversary!

How did a party that was Brazil's dominant force, just 20 years ago, get so derailed?

As brazilians head to the polls in two and a half weeks, we’ve got to ask: what’s the state of brazilian democracy?

Three weeks to Election Day!

We have talked to Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, the museum's deputy director

The Brazilian Report talks to Fernando Vega, the Latin American Social Solutions Manager at comScore

Now, eight years after the end of his second term, Lula is in prison, serving a 12-year sentence for passive corruption and money laundering. His Workers’ Party suffered major defeats in the 2016 municipal elections, losing in many key municipalities, including their crown jewel – São Paulo. Barring the legal equivalent of a miracle, Lula […]

An introduction to the electoral system!

Interview with the presidential candidate for Psol!

In two months, Brazilians will choose a new president. This past weekend, though, it was our candidates’ turn to choose their running mates. We explain why that matters. Of Brazil’s 37 presidents, eight of them took the job after being elected vice president – for various reasons: death, resignation or impeachment.

As Brazil prepares to analyze the issue of abortion rights, we talk to the Center of Reproductive Rights about the possible impacts of legalizing abortions.

We're joined by Oliver Stuenkel (FGV) and author of "The BRICS and the Future of Global Order"

We host Dr. Rosana Richtmann, an infectious disease specialist at the Emilio Ribas Institute,