26 April 2022
The only collection of poems to be published by the Portuguese writer Camilo Pessanha during his lifetime, Clepsydra is the crowning achievement of the Portuguese symbolist movement. Meditating on the inexorable flow of time, Pessanha sets the music of his verses against the murmuring water clock that gives the book its title. This new annotated translation by Adam […]
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25 April 2022
Every year, since 1974, Portugal commemorates the 25th of April as the nation’s “Freedom Day,” with a national holiday celebrating the values of democracy, the fight against fascism, and the end of Portuguese colonialism. The day, which marks the bloodless military coup and brought democracy and civil liberties to the Portuguese people, is also sometimes […]
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24 April 2022
By Len Port The Secretary-General of the United Nations and former Prime Minister of Portugal, António Guterres, may be about to play a key role in de escalating the war and bringing about peace in Ukraine. Guterres is to have separate meetings with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine in their respective capitals. He has already […]
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21 April 2022
Francisco António Duarte Lopes, 59, has been appointed the new Ambassador of Portugal in Washington. A career diplomat, he has served as permanent representative of Portugal to the United Nations (UN) since 2017. He replaces Domingos Fezas Vital who became Ambassador of Portugal to the United States in 2015. Prior to his appointment as Permanent […]
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19 April 2022
Bringing to life his countrymen’s daily struggles with the sea, struggles carried out against the dark-stoned background of their homeland, novelist Dias de Melo tells the collective story of Azorean seamen at a moment of great change toward the end of the nineteenth century. Confronted with increasing economic hardship and social and political tensions, whalers […]
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18 April 2022
As a country fully committed to nuclear disarmament, Portugal shares most of the concerns of others about the lack of concrete steps on this by the major powers within the United Nations General Assembly. It is Portugal’s view that the well- documented catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons should reinforce commitments to […]
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