05 October 2021
Portugal his honoring former diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes, on October 5th, with a ceremony at the National Pantheon, following a resolution approved by the Portuguese Parliament. The ceremony to be held on October 19, will be symbolic, in the form of an empty tomb, without the transfer of his remains from his birthplace in […]
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04 October 2021
By Millicent Borges Accardi Our interviewee, André Corrêa de Sá, specializes in Portuguese and Luso-African Literatures and Cultures, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Évora and a Licenciatura degree from the University of Coimbra. An Assistant Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University […]
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02 October 2021
Portugal has had a shared language and close social ties with Brazil since it discovered and started colonizing this huge South American country five centuries ago, but it now finds itself in danger of suffering an environmental catastrophe, partly because of the on-going destruction of the Amazon rainforest more than 4,500 kilometres away. Since 1970, […]
01 October 2021
Prime Minister António Costa has announced on Thursday that, effective October 1, Portugal is officially fully COVID’19 vaccinated, with more than 8.5 million people inoculated, or 83.4% of its population. Declaring October 1 “Freedom Day!” the Prime Minister said that by the end of this week, “Portugal should have 85% of its citizens fully vaccinated.” […]
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29 September 2021
The Autonomous Region of the Azores witnessed a 97.5% increase in passengers arriving at local airports in August. The numbers, revealed by the Regional Statistical Service of the Azores (SREA), draw a comparison between last month and the same period in 2020. According to the SREA, 200,121 passengers disembarked in August, of which 105,485 from […]
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28 September 2021
Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, António Lobo Antunes’s Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal. Told through the memories of four women, who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture […]
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