The U.S. suspended consular services and Australia closed its embassy in Brasília just before Brazil’s election, while American warships remain in the Caribbean. What is Washington preparing for? The public evidence points to several readings, and none settles the question.
A sunset catamaran cruise from the V&A Waterfront, a slow harbour walk and dinner in a building with a past: how to spend a romantic sundown in Cape Town.
eyesonbrasil Picture a long, S-shaped country where emerald rice terraces, limestone seascapes, and ancient imperial cities sit just a short flight or train ride apart. Here’s a route from north to south. Ha Long Bay and Lan Ha Bay Your journey begins in the northeast, where nearly 2,000 limestone karsts and islets rise from jade-green…
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How Students Can Actually Use AI Well eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 29, 2026 – It’s a story you hear more and more often these days, even though it’s rarely said out loud: a dissertation, prepared over months, fails a plagiarism or AI check. A term paper gets rejected as “not independently produced.” An examination board asks…
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Paraguay brought its investment pitch to New York, landing a $200 million J.P. Morgan forestry deal — while Brazil keeps absorbing the cost of Trump’s tariffs.
What AI in Education Looks Like from São Paulo to the Amazon eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, September 13, 2026 – If Celeste Labuschagne’s central warning about South Africa is that good intentions without infrastructure and guidance produce stalled initiatives, Brazil offers something rarer: a live experiment in what happens when a country tries to do both at…
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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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Inside India’s First Hydrogen Locomotive eyesonbrasil From Sketch to Steel Amsterdam, July 21, 2026 – On July 17, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood at Jind railway station in Haryana and flagged off a train unlike any that had ever moved on Indian rails. Its name: NaMo Green Rail. Its fuel: hydrogen, stored in onboard…
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Inside Brazil’s CBF Conflict-of-Interest Storm eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 15, 2026 – Brazilian football has never been short of controversy, but the latest one doesn’t involve a coach, a referee, or a scandal-plagued president. It involves a sitting justice of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) — Brazil’s Supreme Court — and questions about how close his…
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eyesonbrasil For 54 straight years, watching the World Cup in Brazil meant watching Globo. The network had aired every tournament since 1970, building a viewing ritual so entrenched it barely registered as a choice. In 2026, that streak ended — not because a rival network finally out-bid Globo, but because a 31-year-old from Rio de…
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