03 December 2019
By Len Port Portugal has been much in the international news this year and most of the reports in the major papers have been positive. When Portugal was rated number three in this year’s Global Peace Index, published annually by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace, the Sydney Morning Herald was naturally among those […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel, World
01 December 2019
Award‑winning author António Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty‑seven months in Angola, Lobo Antunes tells the story of a young African boy who is brought to Portugal by […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
24 November 2019
Azorean island of Faial has been plunged into what seismologists call “a full seismic crisis” since the beginning of November. A new earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale, with epicenter about 30 kilometers west of the parish of Capelo, on Faial island, was felt this Sunday, November 24, with no record of personal […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Faial, Featured, Pico, São Jorge, World
23 November 2019
The United States has begun to levy 10 to 25% taxes on European exports. The action is affecting the import of products from Portugal. Among the most affected are cheeses from the Azores with many importers cancelling orders due the increase in customs taxes. According to the US administration, the tariffs were in retaliation for […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Food & Wine, Heritage, Politics, Portugal, São Jorge
21 November 2019
TAP Air Portugal will offer two new nonstop routes from North America to include Boston/Ponta Delgada and Montreal/Lisbon. The new service will be launched in the summer of 2020. The company will also increase the number of connections between Lisbon and Ponta Delgada, from four to five daily. TAP did not offer a specific start […]
Posted in Azores, Cape Verde, Community, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World
18 November 2019
The Portuguese Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) has announced that Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, is the newest member of the “Friends of Portugal” in the U.S. Senate. This is an important accomplishment because Connecticut has more than 49,000 Portuguese according to the last American Community Survey, and ranks in the Top […]
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