10 July 2015
Encompassing numerous territories across four different continents, Portugal’s early modern empire depended upon a vast and complex bureaucracy, yet colonial power did not reside solely in the centralized state. In a masterful reconceptualization of the functioning of empire, Erik Lars Myrup’s Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World argues that beneath the surface […]
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07 July 2015
Portugal’s First Lady, Maria Barroso, wife of former President Mário Soares, has died today, Tuesday July 7, age 90. Maria Barroso died in Lisbon’s Red Cross Hospital, following an injury from a fall at home 10 days ago. She was survived by her husband, two children and several grandchildren. A former actress, Maria Barroso was […]
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01 July 2015
Portuguese tall ship NRP Sagres III is completing a two month sailing tour of the East Coast, United States, with stops in Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford and Boston harbors. In Philadelphia, Sagres participated in the Philadelphia Camden (June 25-28) ‘Tall Ships Challenge 2015’, at the Delaware River waterfront international sea festival, the largest sailing […]
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30 June 2015
Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese ‘Discoveries’ of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under […]
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29 June 2015
By Richard Simas,Contributor (*) In Lélia Pereira’s home in Florianapólis, Brazil sits an un-opened bottle of Licor do Ezekiel, the passion fruit distilled in the Azores and sometimes sold in figurines of Azorean folk characters. This particular bottle dates from her first trip to the island of São Miguel in 1988 and a visit to […]
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24 June 2015
A formal signing ceremony to transfer ownership of TAP Air Portugal to an American-Brazilian consortium took place in Lisbon today, June 24, in the Portuguese Ministry of Finance. The Atlantic Gateway consortium is led by David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue airline based in the United States and the CEO of Brazil’s Azul carrier. Neeleman, who holds […]
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