On Sunday, the Portuguese President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, was in a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, where the current situation in Ukraine was addressed. According to an official note, “The President of the Republic reiterated the vehement condemnation of Portugal and solidarity for the courageous Ukrainian resistance. This support has been […]
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Ukraine: Nation under attack has full support of the Portuguese people – Portugal
Posted on 27 February 2022.
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Opinion: Cooperation not conflict will save life on Earth – by Len Port
Posted on 22 February 2022.
So much aggression across the world is making it increasingly difficult to focus, even here in peaceful Portugal, on the biggest threat of all to the future of humanity: climate change. The arguing over Ukraine, now getting close to all-out war, atrocities in Afghanistan, mass killings in African nations, Islamic terrorism, child abuse within the […]
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Music: Andreia Pinto Correia performing for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra – NYC
Posted on 17 February 2022.
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra will premiere the work, Os Pássaros da Noite [The Birds of Night], on March 17-19, by Portuguese composer Andreia Pinto Correia, under the direction of conductor Gustavo Dudamel who will also direct Robert Schumann’s third and fourth symphonies. According to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s website, the piece was commissioned […]
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Protest: Constitutional Court call for new elections creates constitutional crisis – Portugal
Posted on 15 February 2022.
Judges of the Constitutional Court, unanimously, decided today to nullity all the votes of the Portuguese emigrants who cast their ballots in the electoral constituency of Europe for the general elections of January 30, 2022. The court rule, which calls for new elections, was taken after over 157,000 votes, cast by Portuguese living in the […]
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Book | Ursula | by Maria Firmina dos Reis – Editor’s Note
Posted on 12 February 2022.
Written within the literary conventions of the Romantic movement and published decades before other Brazilian abolitionist novels, Ursula (1859) offers a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of enslaved African and Afro-Brazilian characters. While readers follow the story of the plantation owner’s daughter Ursula, her doomed romance with Tancredo, and her uncle’s diabolical schemes to entrap her […]
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Opinion: Portuguese Legislative Election 2022 – Open Letter
Posted on 31 January 2022.
By Frank Ferreira An “Open Letter” to the Portuguese Diaspora Around the World. An In-Person Audience with the President of the Republic Sought. The Next Government Must Reform the Electoral System – “No Voter Should be Denied their Constitutional Right of Suffrage. If No Reforms, The Matter Will be Taken to the European Court of […]
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