by Matthias Verheecke | Dec 9, 2014 | LAGF
On October 26th, incumbent president Dilma Rousseff of the centre-left Workers Party (PT) got re-elected in a second round run-off against Aécio Neves of the centrist Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). In the weeks leading to the run-off, Brazil’s financial...
by Matthias Verheecke | Jul 30, 2014 | LAGF
The FIFA World Cup… While this quite often turns out to be a contested topic – especially given the host countries of the past and upcoming 2 editions – for many of us this means late nights amongst friends or family to see our favourite team get through to the next...
by Matthias Verheecke | Apr 21, 2014 | LAGF
I am now living in Sao Paulo for just over 2 months and start seeing some “trends”. When asking Brazilians what is holding Brazil back, education, infrastructure and healthcare are the three recurring ailments. Let’s focus on education in this blog-post. The poor...
by Matthias Verheecke | Mar 29, 2014 | LAGF
Wednesday (26 March 2014) I arrived in Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s third largest city and capital of the Minas Gerais region. I was there to represent our portfolio companies on the “Belgian Day”and was invited by the ‘Diário do Comércio’, the local financial newspaper,...
by Matthias Verheecke | Mar 5, 2014 | LAGF
After having enjoyed the services of a hotel just over one week, I moved out to a small apartment, slightly out of the busy city centre. Even though still early in the day, the thermometer indicated we were close to 30 degrees already. It goes without saying that once...
