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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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.
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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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 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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