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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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IBC 2026 Amsterdam: The Future of Media is Taking Shape

AI Reshapes the Media World eyesoneurope Amsterdam, 13 September 2026 — The International Broadcasting Convention, better known as IBC, has developed into one of the world’s most important meeting places for the media, entertainment and technology industries. Each year, Amsterdam becomes a temporary laboratory in which broadcasters, technology companies, producers, engineers, journalists and entrepreneurs can see…
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Two Brazils, One Algorithm

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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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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Copacabana Real estate

Clogs on the Copacabana

Where Dutch Money Is Flowing in Brazilian Real Estate eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 22, 2026 – Four centuries ago, the Dutch controlled a slice of northeastern Brazil, built forts along its coast, and left behind windmill-dotted towns whose names — Holambra, Carambeí, Castrolanda — still sound more like Friesland than Bahia. That old fascination never really…
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How Dutch Firms Are Shaping Water Management in Brazil

Dutch expertise transforms water management in Brazil.

EU-Mercosur trade

Why Brazil is quietly becoming the Netherlands’ most interesting new business address

eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 17, 2026 – Dutch investors have never really left Brazil. The Netherlands is already the single largest immediate European investor in the country, holding a bigger share of Europe’s Brazilian FDI stock than Luxembourg and Spain combined. What’s changed in 2026 is the case for going further: a landmark EU-Mercosur trade deal…
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Morpho Well

Oil Under the River’s Mouth

Petrobras Strikes Amazon Crude, and a Reef Nobody Fully Understands Braces for Impact eyesonbrasil On the afternoon of August 14, 2026, Petrobras told the world what it had spent thirteen years and hundreds of millions of dollars chasing: there is oil at the bottom of the Amazon River’s mouth. Electric logs and rock samples pulled…
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