eyesonbrasil Every purchase leaves a trace. A flight, a steak dinner, a pair of jeans: each carries emissions that never appear on the receipt. A new generation of apps wants to make that trace visible, and the idea is spreading through banking. How the technology works The method is simpler than the marketing suggests. These…
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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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Paraguay votes on machines that print each vote on a chip-embedded paper ballot. How the system works, how it is meant to build trust, and what Brazil could and could not learn from it.
Why nothing official can exist before 17:00 on Brazilian election day, how the electronic voting machines work, and how anyone can check the results themselves.
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.
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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From Astronaut milking robots to feed-pushing Junos, Dutch company Lely has spread automated dairy farming across Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay — and Brazil, now Lely’s Latin American headquarters, is leading the pack.
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.
