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 […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Madeira, Politics, Portugal, World
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 […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
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 […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Politics, Portugal, World
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 […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, 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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13 September 2015
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Gone is the perception that all politicians are shady. Well, at least one isn’t. With just over three weeks to go before Portugal’s general election, the left-wing Lisbon candidate Joana Amaral Dias has emphasized her belief in transparency. But why would she choose to appear on the cover of a […]
