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Community | Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho remains on paid leave FLAD | Carlos Costa Neves appointed director of the Luso-American Development Foundation Book | Reduction in Force: Poems by Hugo dos Santos  Community | Portuguese diaspora entrepreneurs network to be created Debate | Portuguese lawmakers propose shift in gender identity laws
 

Community | Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho remains on paid leave – Los Angeles, CA

Alberto M. Carvalho, the Portuguese-American superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), remains on paid administrative leave following a federal investigation involving the nation’s second-largest school system.  The move comes after agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed search warrants at Carvalho’s residence and district offices in late February 2026, in […]

FLAD | Carlos Costa Neves appointed director of the Luso-American Development Foundation – Portugal

The Board of Trustees of Lisbon based, Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) appointed Dr. Carlos Henrique da Costa Neves, 72, to the Executive Board, chaired since January 15, 2026, by José Manuel Durão Barroso. Born in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores,  Costa Neves, 72, holds a degree in Law from the University of Lisbon. He has […]

Book | Reduction in Force: Poems by Hugo dos Santos  – Review

By Millicent Borges Accardi Born in Lisboa, Portugal, Hugo dos Santos was raised in New Jersey. An award-winning writer and translator, his books include a collection of short stories about Newark, Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), his upcoming book, book A Reduction in Force (Bauhan Publishing, 2026), winner of the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry […]

Community | Portuguese diaspora entrepreneurs network to be created – Portugal

The Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, Emídio Sousa, has expressed his intention to foster the creation of an economic community that connects Portuguese citizens and their descendants worldwide, aiming to strengthen ties between the diaspora and Portugal’s economy. His proposal centers on leveraging the global Portuguese diaspora, estimated at more than five million people, […]

Debate | Portuguese lawmakers propose shift in gender identity laws – Portugal

Portugal’s parliament has voted in a preliminary session to advance three controversial bills that would significantly alter the country’s gender identity framework, marking a potential shift away from one of Europe’s most progressive legal models.  The proposals, backed by center-right and right-wing parties including the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Chega, and CDS-PP, would move forward […]

Fado: Sounds of Portugal with Ana Laíns and Pedro Galveias – October

01 October 2015

Beginning October 15, 2015, Portuguese fado singers Ana Laíns and Pedro Galveias will perform in concerts and education events in venues throughout the states of New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Ana Laíns’ music spans the full depth and breadth of Portuguese fado music, an art form recently recognized by UNESCO for its profound importance […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Featured, Heritage, Life Style, Music, Portugal

October 4: Complications lie ahead of general elections – Portugal

30 September 2015

By Len Port, Contributor (*) It’s shaping up to be the closest contest in Portugal’s post-revolution democracy, but such is the level of apathy, angst and anger over politics that a record number of eligible voters may not bother to cast their ballot on Sunday. Those who do vote may end up concocting a parliamentary […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Madeira, Politics, Portugal, World

Community: President Cavaco Silva to visit Newark – New Jersey

29 September 2015

Portugal’s President, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, will visit today Newark, NJ, to meet with representatives from various Portuguese communities on the East Coast. The stopover concludes a three day official visit to the United States where Cavaco Silva participated in the 70th United Nations General Assembly. At the United Nations, President Cavaco Silva addressed the General […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Book: ‘Political Representation in Times of Bailout’ – Editor’s Note

28 September 2015

Since 2008 many European states have experienced significant challenges in adapting to austerity, and political actors within these states have made significant changes in their discourses and practices. This book explores the short-term impact of the sovereign debt crisis on aspects of political representation in Greece and Portugal, two of the countries that have been […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Politics, Portugal, World

Book: ‘Exemplary Tales’ by Sophia M. B. Andresen – Editor’s Note

22 September 2015

Published in 1962, this short story collection foreshadows two other iconic 1960s works—by the Mozambican Honwana and the Angolan Vieira—in the way it invites its readers to consider a range of ethical issues at a watershed moment during the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. It alternates between allegorical pieces, endowed with a fable-like quality, such as […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Portugal

Pope Francis: Exclusive interview with Rádio Renascença – Portugal

18 September 2015

Earlier this week Pope Francis spoke to a Portuguese audience in an exclusive interview with Lisbon based Catholic Rádio Renascença. In the interview Pope Francis confirmed his intention to visit Portugal in 2017, on the 100th anniversary of the Marian Apparitions in Fátima. “I was only once in Portugal many years ago, on the way […]

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