The Machine That Stays Silent Until 5 p.m.
Why nothing official can exist before 17:00 on Brazilian election day, how the electronic voting machines work, and how anyone can check the results themselves.
Why nothing official can exist before 17:00 on Brazilian election day, how the electronic voting machines work, and how anyone can check the results themselves.
The Beautiful Game spins the wheel — and the Saudis own the casino. eyesonbrasil Once upon a time, football was poetry in motion. Now it’s portfolio management in motion. The pitch has become a roulette table, and the ball? Just another chip rolling under the watchful eyes of oil billionaires. Saudi Arabia’s football empire is…
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Days before the first round of voting, the ban on sports betting has opened a rift between the Planalto Palace and Brazilian football.
eyesonbrasil While world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly last week, Paraguay quietly ran a masterclass in economic diplomacy. President Santiago Peña didn’t just attend the General Assembly — he used the sidelines to stage the Paraguay Investment Forum, opening it in front of 50 local business leaders and 150 investors…
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From Astronaut milking robots to feed-pushing Junos, Dutch company Lely has spread automated dairy farming across Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay — and Brazil, now Lely’s Latin American headquarters, is leading the pack.
From AI-powered leak detection in São Paulo to Arcadis’s fifteen-year infrastructure partnership with SABESP, Dutch water technology and entrepreneurship are quietly reshaping how Brazil’s cities manage drought and flood.
Uruguay wasn’t invited to Trump’s “Shield of the Americas” anti-narcotrafficking coalition — and neither was Brazil. As Lula and Trump traded pointed messages at the UN, Montevideo has spent 2026 trying to build an alternative seat at the table.
Lula, Trump, and Brazil’s Fraught Election Season eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 22, 2026 – When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stepped to the podium to open the UN General Assembly’s 81st session on September 22, 2026, he wasn’t just delivering Brazil’s traditional opening address — he was speaking, twelve days before his own re-election bid, directly…
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What the Government’s Own Numbers Don’t Show eyesonbrasil On August 1, 2026, Brazil’s gas pumps quietly started dispensing E32 — gasoline with 32% ethanol, up from 30%. Six weeks later, on September 18, the government authorized testing to push that further, to 35%. Officially, this is presented as a routine technical evolution. A closer look…
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eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 21, 2026 – At first glance, the Netherlands and Brazil could hardly look more different — a nation of 17 million squeezed into land it partly reclaimed from the sea, and a continent-sized country of over 200 million people with the world’s largest tropical forest inside its borders. Yet Dutch companies have…
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