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Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada
 

Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization – Portugal

Portugal has selected Germany’s Lufthansa Group as the strategic investor in TAP Air Portugal, marking a significant turning point for the country’s aviation industry and with important implications for Portuguese communities in the United States, Canada, and beyond.  The selection does not mean that Lufthansa has already taken ownership of TAP. Rather, it represents a […]

Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans – Portugal

Former United States President Barack Obama returned to Lisbon on Saturday, October 10, where he delivered a keynote address at the 6th edition of the Game Changers Forum.  During his two-day stay in Lisbon, Obama met with Portuguese President António José Seguro at the Palácio de Belém, the official residence of the Portuguese head of […]

Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place – Fall River (MA)

The FABRIC Arts Festival, founded in 2019 and now in its seventh edition, returns to Fall River October 8–11, showcasing Portuguese contemporary art, music, performances, exhibitions, food, and storytelling, exploring themes of migration, identity, memory, belonging, and place and connections across borders. With particular significance in Fall River, historically one of America’s leading textile-manufacturing centers […]

Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week – Portugal

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to visit Portugal this coming week as part of a European tour from October 5–8, with Lisbon as the final stop. Secretary Rubio is expected in Lisbon on Thursday, October 8, following visits to Reykjavík, Iceland, and Athens, Greece.  He is expected to meet with Prime Minister […]

Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada – Azores

The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary and 28th Annual Leadership Awards Gala on October 17 at the Coliseu Micaelense in Ponta Delgada, Azores. For the first time in the organization’s history, the PALCUS Leadership Awards Gala will be held outside the continental United States, bringing […]

Community: Bob Correia has died at the age of 82 – Fall River, MA

09 July 2021

Robert Correia, a longtime member of the Massachusetts Legislature and later the mayor of Fall River, has died at the age of 82. He was House majority whip for six years. One of the bigger local political figures in the past 50 years, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1977 […]

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Book: ‘Daria’ by Irene Marques – Editor’s Note

08 July 2021

When a young woman is subjected to a violent attack, the impact of colonialism, patriarchy, and who we choose to love are thrown into sharp relief. Daria is an immigrant woman living in Toronto, and as she begins to tell her story, the reader is pulled into different worlds, travelling to various timeframes and locations […]

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Appointed: Daniela Braga joins the Biden Administration – Washington, DC

06 July 2021

Portuguese born Daniela Braga, founder of DefinedCrowd, was appointed by Biden administration’s National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Resource Task Force, whose 12-member team mission is to advise the federal government. The team will prepare a guide for the creation of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Center, a platform for sharing research and providing artificial information […]

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Science: São Miguel taking center stage at the GLEX Summit – Azores

05 July 2021

The Azores will host the Global Exploration Summit 2021 (GLEX), between July 6-10, which opens in Lisbon and closes on the island of São Miguel. The GLEX Summit, under the motto “explore and learn”, is part of the celebrations of the 500 years of the circumnavigation voyage of Portuguese explorer Fernão de Magalhães (1480-1521). The […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, São Miguel, World

Book: ‘Ocean Crossings’ edited by André Nóvoa – Editor’s Note

04 July 2021

The theme of the seas has long been a central topic in scholarship on the Lusophone world, but more recent research has invested ocean crossings with new relevance and urgency. Instead of focusing on the stereotypical ocean crossings of the Portuguese maritime expansion, Ocean Crossing brings together a diversity of approaches focused on the “less obvious” sea […]

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Proposed: Portuguese emigrants to vote electronically in 2023 – Portugal

01 July 2021

The Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities, Berta Nunes, has announced the creation of a task force to develop the technical conditions to carry out an electronic voting pilot project for the decentralization of the voting process, which will include Portuguese citizens living abroad. Nunes, who made the announcement in Parliament, has said that […]

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