Autoritários (Authoritarians)

In the podcast Authoritarians, the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo produced a series of episodes about authoritarian leaders who have risen around the world in recent decades, such as Viktor Orbán (Hungary), Nayib Bukele (El Salvador), Narendra Modi (India), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), and Donald Trump.

Host Ana Luiza Albuquerque traveled to interview researchers, politicians, activists, journalists, and citizens affected by authoritarianism in each of these countries. Each episode deals with the context that allowed the autocrat to come to government, what mechanisms he uses to concentrate power, and how the population is affected by his abuses.

This series points out the similarities between their 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.