Month: September 2026

Investing in Brazil

Tilly Norwood

A Vez da Tili

How Brazil Fell in Love With — and Immediately Started Making Fun of — an AI Actress eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 13, 2026 – Word of Tilly Norwood reached Brazil the way most global controversies do these days: not through a news broadcast, but through a meme. Someone spliced her uncanny, ring-lit Instagram reel into a…
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View From Amsterdam

What Brazil’s Institutional Storm Looks Like to Dutch Money eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 7, 2026 – The Netherlands has a bigger stake in what happens next in Brazil than most Brazilians probably realize. Behind the United States, the Netherlands is consistently one of the two or three largest single sources of foreign direct investment position in…
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Joaquim José da Silva Xavier — Tiradentes

Two Centuries After Tiradentes

Brazil’s Unfinished Argument With Itself eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 6, 2026 – Every September 7th, Brazil pauses to remember a man who never lived to see the country he helped imagine. Joaquim José da Silva Xavier — Tiradentes — was hanged and quartered in 1792 for conspiring against Portuguese colonial rule, his body parts displayed along…
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132 years of Big Business, Big Politics, Big Culture And Power One table in Rio de Janeiro

eyesonbrasil Rio de Janeiro, 1 September 2026–Walk down Rua Gonçalves Dias in downtown Rio de Janeiro and push open the heavy door of the Confeitaria Colombo, and you don’t just step into a pastry shop — you step into a living piece of history. Since it opened on 17 September 1894, founded by two Portuguese…
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