Brazil Unfiltered
Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil. Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. The podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo. ➡️ https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities
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May 29, 2025 • 27 mins
Eduardo Gomes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fluminense Federal University, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He hold a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, with a dissertation on a failed project of turning Brazil into an exporter of manufactured products before the neoliberal reforms. He has been a Visiting Professor in a couple of colleges in the United States, including as a Fulbright...
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April 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Rubens Glezer is a professor of Constitutional Law at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo. He holds a PhD in Legal Theory from USP, a Master's in Law and Development from the Getúlio Vargas Law School and is a visiting researcher at NYU (New York University). Glezer is a specialist in Brazil's Supreme Court and is the author of several research and scientific works, as well as a frequent commentator in the media a...
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March 30, 2025 • 43 mins
Heloisa Galvão is a co-founder of the Brazilian Women’s Group and its Executive-Director. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Decoration “Ordem do Rio Branco” awarded by the President of Brazil to Brazilians living overseas who are recognized by outstanding services to Brazil and Brazilian immigrants (September 2002). She holds Master degrees in Print Journalism and in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University. ...
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February 26, 2025 • 38 mins
João Carlos Jarochinski Silva is Professor at Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR) in a joint appointment at the Faculty of International Relations and the Sociedade e Fronteiras (Society and Borders) Postgraduate Programme. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Núcleo de Estudos de População Elza Berquó (NEPO/Unicamp), and holds a PhD in Social Sciences (International Relations) from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo ...
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January 24, 2025 • 38 mins
Marianna Poyares is a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. She is a critical theorist working on the ethics of new technologies of migration and border enforcement. Trained as a philosopher and with a background in human rights policy and advocacy, Marianna has worked, among others, with the Brazilian National Truth Commission, the United Nations Development Program, the International Rescue Committee, and...
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December 17, 2024 • 41 mins
Vera Paiva is a Full Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the University of São Paulo, where she has taught since 1987. She is dedicated to psychosocial approaches to inequality and sexuality and to the innovation of health practices (prevention and care) based on human rights, with an emphasis on STIs/AIDS and covid-19. She has extensive collaboration with AIDS Programs (national, stat...
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December 17, 2024 • 31 mins
Camila Rocha is the Scientific Director of CCI/Cebrap. A PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, she won the USP Thesis Award and the best doctoral thesis award from the Brazilian Political Science Association. A finalist for the 64th Jabuti Prize with the book Less Marx, More Mises: Liberalism and the New Right in Brazil, she also serves as Global Advisor for Our Common Home (Geneva), is a member of the board of...
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November 7, 2024 • 87 mins
CartaCapital e o WashingtonBrazilOffice (WBO) transmitem uma edição especial do podcast Brazil Unfiltered para debater o resultado das eleições presidenciais americanas e como a vitória de Donald Trump contra Kamala Harris poderá impactar o futuro das relações entre Brasil e os Estados Unidos.
O encontro conta com a participação de:
O encontro conta com a participação de:
- James Naylor Green, presidente do Conselho Diretivo do WBO
- André Pagliarini, professor de Históri...
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October 30, 2024 • 35 mins
Erika Robb Larkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio’s most famous favelas. Her second book,...
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September 29, 2024 • 40 mins
Tainah Santos Pereira is a PhD student of International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Tainha has a MA in Political Science from the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) and a BA in International Relations from Universidade Estácio de Sá. She was a Fellow of the Draper Hills Summer Program on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in 2022 at Stanford University. She is inter...
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September 3, 2024 • 39 mins
Isabel Figueiredo is an ecologist and coordinator of the Cerrado and Caatinga Program at the Institute of Society, Population and Nature (ISPN). With a Master's degree in Ecology from the University of Brasilia, she has worked for eighteen years on the conservation of the Cerrado with indigenous peoples and communities to promote sustainable uses of biodiversity. She coordinated the Small Grants Program in Brazil (PPP-ECOS) for 17 ...
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July 29, 2024 • 42 mins
Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and international studies at Louisiana State University, a faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha d...
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July 1, 2024 • 34 mins
Debora Diniz is a Brazilian university professor, human rights activist, documentarist, and public intellectual. Diniz served as a professor at University of Brasília for almost 20 years. She is the founder of Anis – Instituto de Bioética, an organization that specializes in the use of video and research for evidence-based advocacy, policy change, and strategic litigation on health and rights. Diniz served as Deputy Chief Executive...
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May 23, 2024 • 34 mins
A member of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove represents California’s vibrant, diverse 37th Congressional District in Los Angeles County. She is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee. She is the Co-Chair of the Congressional Brazil Caucus, and a Whip and Outreach Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus. Congresswoman Kamlag...
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April 29, 2024 • 45 mins
Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro is the co-founder of WBO and was the organization's first executive director. With a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Erasmus Mundus program, Juliana specialized in International Political Economy and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague and the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. ...
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March 26, 2024 • 48 mins
Marcos Arruda is an economist, professor and author. He is an associate and co-founder of the PACS Institute – Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone, Rio de Janeiro since 1986 and an associate of the Transnational Institute, in Amsterdam, since 1975. Arruda is the co-founder and former director of IBASE – Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis, Rio de Janeiro, a former member of the Institute of Cultural Action, i...
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February 27, 2024 • 38 mins
Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst who was has worked at the National Security Archive since April 1986. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University as an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs. He i...
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January 24, 2024 • 44 mins
Rafael Alcadipani is full professor of management at the Sao Paulo Management School from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He got his PhD in management from the University of Manchester, UK. He does research on police and crime in Brazil. He has published widely in top scientific journals in his academic field. Prof. Alcadipani also writes for non-academic outlets in Brazil and has been called by Brazilian and international...
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December 14, 2023 • 49 mins
In the last program of 2023, James Naylor Green switches roles and becomes the interviewee. The Brazil Unfiltered host, who is a professor of Brazilian history and culture at Brown University and the national co-coordinator for the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, answers questions by André Pagliarini, a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and co-editor of the organization's weekly newsletter. Pagliarini...
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November 24, 2023 • 35 mins
Raísa Cetra is co-executive director at Article 19 Brazil and South America and PhD student in Global Health at USP. She has a bachelor's degree in International Relations at the same university. She has worked widely on international human rights law within civil society organizations, mostly in Brazil and Argentina and in regional and global foruns, such as the United Nations, the Inter-American Human Rights System and Mercosur. ...
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