Leonardo Avritzer

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to The Latino Americanist, a podcast brought to you by the Centre of Latin American Studies at Cambridge University.

My name is David Lehmann, and this week I am very honored to receive Professor Leonardo Avritzer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.

Leonardo has lived all his life in Belo Horizonte, but he also is very well known internationally and has also published extensively in English about various aspects of politics, both institutions and also about the question of participation or participatory politics.

So Leonardo, we have seen quite transformation in Brazilian political life in the last six years or eight years because of the reign of Bolsonaro, and now the, a new election in which his son is a candidate.