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Explaining Brazil

News from Brazil, by The Brazilian Report — an independent media outlet uniquely positioned to offer an insider’s view of current affairs in Brazil.

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Sep 9, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    Civil war at the Brazilian Supreme Court (opens the original)

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    Brazil's Supreme Court is facing what may be the worst crisis in its history. Justice André Mendonça unsealed the Banco Master investigation, exposing messages between the bank's former CEO and Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Now two factions of the court...

  2. Episode · Sep 1, 2026

    The first surprise of the 2016 election (opens the original)

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    Two polls released Monday shook the political establishment. Augusto Cury, of the small Avante party, took third place in both: 11% in Nexus's survey, 7.8% in Atlas Intel's. The numbers force rivals and analysts to take Cury seriously for the first tim...

  3. Episode · Aug 20, 2026

    What's wrong with the Brazilian Congress (opens the original)

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    Brazil's 2026 campaign is officially underway, and almost all the attention will be on the presidential race. That's a problem, because power in Brazil is increasingly won and lost in Congress — where the budget is controlled and where any president's ...

  4. Episode · Aug 10, 2026

    A visa, a snub, and a reopened wound (opens the original)

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    The US State Department revoked the visa of Brazil's ambassador to Washington ( https://newsletters.brazilian.report/p/us-brazil-ambassador-viotti-argentina-russia-putin ) and said the quiet part out loud: it is retaliation for Brasília withholding agr...

  5. Episode · Aug 4, 2026

    Brazilian trade: Life after Washington (opens the original)

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    The US now takes less than 10% of Brazil's exports — the smallest share in decades — and Washington's tariff wall is accelerating a realignment that was already underway. Gustavo Ribeiro speaks with trade consultant Welber Barral, a former Brazilian fo...

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