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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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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Dutch expertise transforms water management in Brazil.
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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Petrobras Strikes Amazon Crude, and a Reef Nobody Fully Understands Braces for Impact eyesonbrasil On the afternoon of August 14, 2026, Petrobras told the world what it had spent thirteen years and hundreds of millions of dollars chasing: there is oil at the bottom of the Amazon River’s mouth. Electric logs and rock samples pulled…
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Can a Swiss farmer’s forest logic save the Amazon’s edge? eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 14, 2026 – For nearly twenty years, one quiet agreement did more to slow Amazon deforestation than almost any law on the books. Signed in 2006 by the world’s biggest grain traders — Cargill, Bunge, Cofco, Louis Dreyfus — the Amazon Soy…
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eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 13, 2026 – Look closely at a satellite map of the Amazon and a pattern jumps out immediately: the forest isn’t eroding randomly. It’s eroding along an edge — a scorched, fragmented arc that traces the southern and eastern rim of the basin, spilling from Brazil into Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. Deforestation…
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Why Brazil’s Voluntary Carbon Market Is Turning Heads Abroad eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 12, 2026 – Picture a stretch of Amazon rainforest the size of a small European country, standing because someone, somewhere, paid to keep it that way. That’s the quiet transaction at the heart of Brazil’s voluntary carbon market (VCM) — and it’s quickly…
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But Brazil’s Carbon Market Rules Are Still Being Written eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 9, 2026 – Deep in the farm country of São Paulo and Paraná states, trucks have been spreading a fine, dark powder across thousands of hectares of cropland. It looks like nothing special — crushed volcanic rock, the kind you might find at…
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