Inside Brazil’s Stunning World Cup Exit eyesonbrasil East Rutherford, New Jersey — For 78 minutes, it looked like another routine step toward the quarterfinals for the five-time champions. Then Erling Haaland happened. Twice. Norway’s 2-1 win over Brazil in the Round of 16 didn’t just end the Seleção’s World Cup — it sent Norway into…
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What Are Brazil’s Real Chances Against Norway? eyesonbrasil Two Instagram clairvoyants called Brazil’s win over Japan. Vó Baiana and Carol Costa Sensitiva now say the Seleção will get past Norway too, on Sunday, in the World Cup’s round of 16. Cards, candles, and instinct point one way. Betting markets, form, and cold statistics happen to…
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Is Brazil Ready for the Ground to Move eyesonbrasil On the night of June 24, 2026, two earthquakes tore through north-central Venezuela within 39 seconds of each other — magnitude 7.2, then 7.5, the strongest the country had recorded in more than a century. Buildings collapsed in Caracas, Valencia, and Chacao. Thousands were injured, and…
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What Belém’s New Data Center Means for Pará eyesonbrasil On the outskirts of Belém, a quiet construction site is about to become one of the most contradictory symbols of Brazil’s new digital economy. Elea Data Centers, in partnership with the energy supplier AXIA, has announced BEL1: the Amazon’s first major data center built for artificial…
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eyesonbrasil For years, Washington and Brasília argued over a word. Was the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV) — Brazil’s two dominant criminal factions, together commanding tens of thousands of members and a cocaine-export machine that reaches from the Amazon to the Port of Santos to the streets of Europe — a…
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Why Lula Won’t Sign On to Latin America’s New War on Cartels eyesonbrasil When the leaders of Mercosur gathered in the Paraguayan city of Luque at the end of June 2026, organized crime dominated the agenda almost as much as trade. Bolivia’s president called for a new South American security architecture. Brazil’s own president, Luiz…
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How Carbon Credits Work, and Why Brazil Holds the World’s Best Hand eyesonbrasil Somewhere in the Brazilian state of Acre, a hectare of rainforest that didn’t get cut down this year just became a financial instrument. It has a serial number, a registry entry, and a buyer somewhere in Rotterdam or São Paulo who will…
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