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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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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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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Dutch expertise transforms water management in Brazil.
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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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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Why Brazil’s Voluntary Carbon Market Is Turning Heads Abroad eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 12, 2026 – Picture a stretch of Amazon rainforest the size of a small European country, standing because someone, somewhere, paid to keep it that way. That’s the quiet transaction at the heart of Brazil’s voluntary carbon market (VCM) — and it’s quickly…
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