Is the “Country of the Future” Finally Arriving? eyesonbrasil On Monday, October 5, Brazilian assets did something they rarely do all at once: they soared together. The dollar closed at R$ 5.0022, down 4.12%, while the Ibovespa climbed 7.85% to 207,190 points, one of the strongest sessions of the year. It was the dollar’s biggest…
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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.
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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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.
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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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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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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