Brazil on Fire: An Autopsy of Bolsonaro’s Failed Coup (Update 3)
The failed January 8 "invasion" of Brasília has united many behind Lula’s agenda to rebuild the country. But the battle ...
Brazil on Fire: Lula Presidente (Update 2)
Brazil has a new president-elect. Yet outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro's far-right allies continue to push misinformation. ...
Brazil on Fire: Elections update with BrasilWire’s Brian Mier
After an unexpected showing for the current president in the first round, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro ...
Brazil on Fire: Amazon up in Smoke – Policies of Destruction (Episode 6)
Brazil’s war against Indigenous peoples is as old as Brazil itself. But Bolsonaro’s administration has sought to accelerate the destruction ...
Brazil on Fire: Ghosts of the Past (Episode 5)
Brazil has long failed to reckon with its history of military dictatorship. President Jair Bolsonaro looks to that era with ...
Brazil on Fire: Nazis on Your Street (Episode 4)
Nazis have a long historical presence in Brazil reaching back to the early days of European fascism. President Jair Bolsonaro ...
Brazil on Fire: God Above Everyone – Good versus Evil (Episode 3)
Brazil’s growing Evangelical Christian movement set the stage for President Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power ...
Brazil on Fire: Free Lula (Episode 2)
Six months before the 2018 Brazilian election, a judge jailed frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on what many considered ...
Brazil on Fire: Violence and Culture War (Episode 1)
Jair Bolsonaro’s rise was marked by a wave of political violence with the hallmarks of a culture war manufactured in ...
Brazil on Fire: Democracy and Dictatorship (Introduction)
In this introduction to the new podcast Brazil on Fire, journalist Michael Fox sets the scene for Brazil’s critical October ...
New Energy Empires (Podcast)
How U.S.-backed military interventions in the Caribbean have been tied up with fossil fuel extractivism ...
Odebrecht’s Original Sins (Podcast)
How looking at the roots of the Odebrecht empire helps us to understand its current crisis ...
