What the Government’s Own Numbers Don’t Show eyesonbrasil On August 1, 2026, Brazil’s gas pumps quietly started dispensing E32 — gasoline with 32% ethanol, up from 30%. Six weeks later, on September 18, the government authorized testing to push that further, to 35%. Officially, this is presented as a routine technical evolution. A closer look…
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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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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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“A Vez Da Tili” continued eyesonbrasil As twilight deepens over Rio’s cobblestone streets, the crowd’s cheers fade into a reverent hush. The android — once a doll, now towering above her maker — stands bathed in the golden light of streetlamps, her blue eyes flickering like distant stars. Tilly Norwood kneels before her creation, the…
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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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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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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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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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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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