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Brazil: groundbreaking high-speed rail (HSR) system.

Connecting Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in 01h 45 minutes eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, 4 nov. 2025– The project, overseen by the private company TAV Brasil, is designed to operate at speeds up to 320 km/h, with the capacity to reach 350 km/h on certain sections. If completed, it would be the first such service on…
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BIG TECH’S DEFENSE

Why they think they’re right – and where they might have a point PART II eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 2 november 2025– After we published article # 1, we received an email.  No name, but the domain was unmistakably from one of the Big Four. A senior executive, clearly, given the tone and detail. “You’re telling half the story,” it read. “We’re not…
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🇧🇴 Bolivia’s New President Rodrigo Paz Signals Economic Reform Amid Conservative Wave in Latin America

eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, November 1st, 2025 – With the election of Rodrigo Paz Pereira as Bolivia’s new president, the country enters a new political and economic chapter after two decades of leftist rule. Paz, a center-right economist and former mayor of Tarija, promises to steer Bolivia toward market-friendly reforms, decentralization, and what he calls “popular capitalism.”…
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Fintech

The Great Shift 

Why Companies Borrow Less from Banks Part I eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, 24 Oct. 2025– Around the world, money is moving faster than ever — and the old rules of borrowing are being rewritten.  Fintech, a contraction of ‘financial’ and ‘technology’, refers to the use of technology to deliver financial services that are smarter, faster and more user-friendly. …
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Lessons from a Shady World

The CO2 Markets eyesonsuriname  Amsterdam, October 15, 2025–  First: a carbon credit is a tradable permit that represents one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) that has been reduced, removed, or avoided. These credits are generated by projects such as reforestation or renewable energy installations and are used in both compliance and voluntary markets…
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BRICS x Washington

Where is Paramaribo? eyesonsuriname Amsterdam, Sept.9th 2025– High-ranking leaders of BRICS countries discussed on Monday morning how to expand trade mechanisms between the bloc’s nations during a multiple conference hosted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a move to counter Washington’s tariff increase. “Trade and financial integration between our countries offer a safe…
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Qatar invests $21 billion in the Democratic Republic of Congo 

The DRC on the rise  eyesonsuriname September 8, 2025 — Earlier this month, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) signed a letter of intent with Al Mansour Holding, a Qatari investment group closely connected to the government of Qatar.  The package includes a total investment of $21 billion and contains 18 Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs)…
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Meta Superintelligence Labs

Re-organisation Meta

New Superintelligence Lab Created eyesonsuriname Amsterdam  July 1st – Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized the company’s artificial intelligence efforts under a new division called Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to a source on Monday.  The division will be headed by Alexandr Wang, former CEO of data labeling startup Scale AI. He will be the chief AI officer of the…
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Guyana Global Charms the World

Guyana Global Charms the World

Looking for Investors eyesonguyana June 8th 2025 — The humid air of Georgetown clung to everything, a familiar embrace of salt and blooming frangipani. But beneath the city’s colonial charm and the rising hum of an emergent oil economy, a different kind of pressure was building. Not from the deep offshore wells, but from the…
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Brazil launches platform to attract green investments

The website will list Ecological Transition Plan projects eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, May 29th 2025–Brazilian and foreign investors now have access to a platform to select environmental and social projects for financing.  It’s already been a little while, but on a Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., Finance Minister  Fernando Haddad and Environment Minister Marina Silva launched the Climate and Ecological Transformation…
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