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 Beautiful Game spins the wheel — and the Saudis own the casino. eyesonbrasil Once upon a time, football was poetry in motion. Now it’s portfolio management in motion. The pitch has become a roulette table, and the ball? Just another chip rolling under the watchful eyes of oil billionaires. Saudi Arabia’s football empire is…
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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.
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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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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