The President of the Government of the Azores, Vasco Cordeiro, will participated May 6 in a high-level bilateral meeting in Washington, DC, with the Permanent Bilateral Commission, between Portugal and the United States, to address the plan in progress to downsizing the US military presence in the Lajes Field, Terceira island. This is the fourth […]
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Lajes: President Vasco Cordeiro to meet Permanent Bilateral Commission this week – Washington, DC
Posted on 04 May 2016.
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Book: ‘Shadowboxing with Bukowski’ by Darrel Kastin – Editor’s Note
Posted on 01 May 2016.
Shadowboxing with Bukowski is the tragicomic tale of Nicholas Kastinovich, a young bookseller who struggles to keep his bookstore afloat in the harbor town of San Pedro, CA, where the infamous Charles Bukowski dwells. Ostracized by fellow business owners, pushed to the edge by many things, not least of which is the curmudgeonly ghost of […]
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Community: Premier Michael Dunkley to visit the Azores – Bermuda
Posted on 29 April 2016.
The Premier of Bermuda, Michael Dunkley, will visit the Azores officially, Monday May 2-5, at the invitation of Vasco Cordeiro the President of the Government of the Azores. He will visit the islands of São Miguel, Faial, and Pico. The invitation was formalized in June 2015, to mark 165 years of Azorean emigration to Bermuda. […]
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Book: ‘Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 28 April 2016.
This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that provide a conceptualization of the Portuguese diaspora with special attention to the importance […]
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The Week: Good and bad from abroad – By Len Port
Posted on 28 April 2016.
By Len Port, Contributor (*) A potentially disastrous setback for Portugal’s economic recovery was averted with Friday’s announcement that Canada’s DBRS agency has upheld Portugal’s only investment-grade credit rating. A much-feared downgrade to junk status in line with that of the other main agencies — Fitch, Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s — would have seen […]
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Memoir: The pain and gain of growing up Portuguese – By Kayla Faria
Posted on 27 April 2016.
By Kayla Faria, Contributor (*) The daughter of two Azorean immigrants, I grew up in a city with the largest percentage of Portuguese descendants in the United States. One study published by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2005 reported that 49.6 percent of the city’s residents were primarily of Portuguese ancestry. Born and raised in […]
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