17 February 2017
By Len Port, Contributor (*) With the triggering of article 50 and the start of the formal process of leaving the European Union just weeks away, feelings of insecurity are mounting across the EU, including among the 50,000 or more British expatriates in Portugal and four times that number of Portuguese nationals in the UK. […]
04 February 2017
Portuguese lawmakers have condemned President Trump’s migration policies which ban refugees from a select group of seven Muslim majority countries from entering the United States. In a new decree signed Friday of last week, President Trump suspended for 90 days the entry of refugees into US territory for travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
03 February 2017
Spanning the period from the country’s independence in 1822 through early 2015, Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira assesses the trajectory of Brazil’s political, social, and economic development. Bresser-Pereira draws on his decades of first-hand experience to shed light on the many paradoxes that have characterized Brazil’s polity, its society, and the relations between the two across nearly […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Brazil, Featured, Politics, World
03 February 2017
A new decree in immigration policy will restrict US Visas for Brazilian applicants by toughening interviewing requirements, the US Embassy in Brazil has confirmed. The new regulations will take force immediately, starting this week. Brazilians benefited from certain exemptions to the interview requirement, but a according to the new immigration policy towards Brazil, Brazilians only […]
Posted in Brazil, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Travel
27 January 2017
Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effective means of overpowering another culture with one’s own values and beliefs. With […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured
24 January 2017
The 2017 Azores Trail Run (ATR) will be held on Faial and Pico islands on May 24-28. The registration deadline is April 30, 2017. In its fourth edition, the international sports competition consists of several trail running races taking place each year in the end of May. Runners from across the globe are encouraged to participate. […]
Posted in Azores, Faial, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Pico, Sports, Travel, World
