Autoritários (Authoritarians)

In the podcast Autoritários (Authoritarians), the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reports on authoritarian leaders who have risen around the world in recent decades, including Viktor Orbán (Hungary), Nayib Bukele (El Salvador), Narendra Modi (India), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Donald Trump (United States), and Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua).

Journalist Ana Luiza Albuquerque interviewed researchers, politicians, activists, journalists, and citizens affected by authoritarianism in each of these countries. Each podcast episode deals with the context that allowed the autocrat to come to government, what mechanisms he used to concentrate power, and how the population was affected by his abuses. This series points out the similarities between the leaders' tactics and explains how autocrats have organized and connected themselves to subvert the democratic order.

More importantly, this podcast tells the stories of the victims of authoritarian governments: from a journalist spied on with Pegasus to a Muslim tortured and killed by Hindu nationalist groups.