Author: Eyes on Brasil

Investing in Brazil

Two Brazils, One Algorithm

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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View From Amsterdam

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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NaMo Green Rail

The Train That Breathes Water

Inside India’s First Hydrogen Locomotive eyesonbrasil From Sketch to Steel Amsterdam, July 21, 2026 – On July 17, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood at Jind railway station in Haryana and flagged off a train unlike any that had ever moved on Indian rails. Its name: NaMo Green Rail. Its fuel: hydrogen, stored in onboard…
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STF

The Justice, His Son, and the Seleção

Inside Brazil’s CBF Conflict-of-Interest Storm eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, July 15, 2026 – Brazilian football has never been short of controversy, but the latest one doesn’t involve a coach, a referee, or a scandal-plagued president. It involves a sitting justice of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) — Brazil’s Supreme Court — and questions about how close his…
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Casimiro Cazé TV

The Streamer Who Out-Broadcasted a Broadcasting Giant

eyesonbrasil For 54 straight years, watching the World Cup in Brazil meant watching Globo. The network had aired every tournament since 1970, building a viewing ritual so entrenched it barely registered as a choice. In 2026, that streak ended — not because a rival network finally out-bid Globo, but because a 31-year-old from Rio de…
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Ellalink cable

The Cable That Skipped America

How EllaLink Rewired Brazil’s Connection to the World eyesonbrasil Six thousand kilometers beneath the Atlantic, a bundle of glass fibers no thicker than a garden hose is quietly reshaping how Brazilians reach the internet. It has no name most people would recognize, no flashy headquarters, and no consumer-facing app. But EllaLink may be one of…
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Basilio 177

From Vacant Offices to Home Addresses

Inside São Paulo’s Downtown Reinvention eyesonbrasil New York isn’t the only city racing to turn empty office towers into apartments — and São Paulo’s version of the story looks nothing like Manhattan’s. There are no new floors being stacked on top of century-old frames, no columns buckling under fresh residential loads. Instead, Brazil’s largest city…
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What the Pfizer Building Scare Reveals About New York's Office-to-Apartment Boom

Cracks in the Conversion

What the Pfizer Building Scare Reveals About New York’s Office-to-Apartment Boom eyesonbrasil For a few tense hours last week, a chunk of Midtown Manhattan went dark. Streets closed. Nine buildings evacuated. A “frozen zone” stretched from 40th to 45th Street between First and Third Avenues. The cause: two buckled steel columns on the 21st floor…
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Vazamentos

Water, a Shipping Container, and a Leak

The Inauguration That Became a Headache for Brazil’s Government eyesonbrasil Less than 24 hours after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva inaugurated another stretch of Brazil’s long-promised São Francisco River water transposition project, drone footage showing leaks and ruptures in the newly delivered structure was already circulating on social media — reigniting distrust around one…
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Brazil's Foreign Ministry Warns of US Military Risk

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry Warns of US Military Risk

How Real Is the Threat? eyesonbrasil Brazil’s diplomatic establishment rarely uses the language it used this week. In a formal response to the Chamber of Deputies, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira put in writing something Brazilian officials have mostly avoided saying out loud: that the United States’ terrorism designation of two Brazilian criminal factions carries a…
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