The Moraes-Master Vote eyesonbrasil Brasília, September 15, 2026 — For the first time in the modern history of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the country’s highest court convenes today not to judge someone else, but to decide whether one of its own sitting justices should be formally investigated. At stake is Justice Alexandre de Moraes…
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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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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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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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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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UNCTAD eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 5th 2026 — The World Investment Report 2026, released on Tuesday (7) by the UN Trade and Development organization (UNCTAD), shows that global foreign direct investment (FDI) grew 6% in 2025, reaching $1.6 trillion after two years of decline. Brazil was the standout performer in Latin America: FDI flows increased from…
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What TECNOVA 2026/2027 Actually Means for You eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 4, 2026 – If you’re building a company in Brazil — or considering it — Brazil’s innovation funding system just opened one of its biggest doors yet, and foreign entrepreneurs are, in most cases, welcome to walk through it. Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and…
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Inside the Real Estate Boom Rewriting Rio’s Port Zone More than a century after Mayor Pereira Passos dreamed of a “Modern Port,” Rio’s old Port Zone is finally becoming a neighborhood — and the real estate market noticed before anyone else did. eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 3, 2026 – For over a hundred years, Rio’s dockside…
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Inside the R$2.5 Billion Bet on the Technologies Powering the Green Transition eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 31, 2026 – Brazil is making one of its clearest statements yet that it wants global capital at the table for its next industrial chapter. On July 28, 2026, the Ministry of Finance published the Operational Manual for the 5th…
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eyesonbrasil For years, Washington and Brasília argued over a word. Was the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV) — Brazil’s two dominant criminal factions, together commanding tens of thousands of members and a cocaine-export machine that reaches from the Amazon to the Port of Santos to the streets of Europe — a…
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