Portuguese American Journal

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Travel Alert! Lisbon Airport suspends European Border Control System for three months Community | Fundraiser for slain MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro surpasses $350,000 Book | Three Stories of Forgetting | By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida Update | Portuguese national identified as suspect in the killings at Brown and MIT – Boston, MA Community | Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro fatally shot in Brookline
 

Travel Alert! Lisbon Airport suspends European Border Control System for three months – Portugal

The Portuguese government has announced the temporary suspension of the European Union’s Entry/Exit System (EES) at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado Airport for a period of three months. The measure applies exclusively to Lisbon Airport and is intended to relieve pressure on passport control operations during peak travel periods. During the suspension, border authorities will revert to […]

Community | Fundraiser for slain MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro surpasses $350,000 –  Boston, MA

The family of Nuno Loureiro, a respected Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, who was tragically killed earlier this month, continues to receive an extraordinary outpouring of support from the community and friends.  Professor Loureiro was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 15, 2025, and died the following day at a […]

Book | Three Stories of Forgetting | By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida – Editor’s  Note

Three men haunt these pages. Perhaps they are tormented ghosts who cannot find rest. All three have been expelled in some way, sent on solitary journeys into the night. Celestino, an old slave trader, returns to the solitude of his home and garden after a life of horrors. Boa Morte da Silva, an Angolan who […]

Update | Portuguese national identified as suspect in the killings at Brown and MIT – Boston, MA

In a major development, law-enforcement officials have publicly identified the suspect in the killings at Brown University and MIT’s Professor Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, as Cláudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national from Torres Novas, Portugal. Authorities said Valente was later found dead in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Professor […]

Community | Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro fatally shot in Brookline – Massachusetts

Portuguese physicist Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, late on the evening of Monday, December 15. Authorities confirmed that Loureiro, originally from Viseu, Portugal, was found with multiple […]

Azores: US lawmakers set to oppose plan to downsize Lajes Field – Washington,DC

29 January 2015

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has expressed concern that “the Defense Department’s plan to downsize the Lajes Field in Terceira, Azores, will harm U.S. relations with Portugal,” the Air Force Times reported today. According to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), a member of the Congressional Portuguese American Caucus, “We are nervous about how the Portuguese […]

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Diplomacy: Portugal to strengthen bilateral relations with Tehran – Iran

26 January 2015

The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rui Machete, is on a two-day visit to Iran to hold talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and meet with cultural and business leaders in the country. According to Machete, the objective of the visit is to address “common interests and concerns” and to boost cooperation between Portugal and […]

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Update: Kate and Gerry McCann suffer legal setback – Portugal

23 January 2015

By Len Port, Contributor(*) Kate and Gerry McCann seemed to suffer a setback this week in suing former detective Gonçalo Amaral over his controversial book about the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. In Lisbon’s Palace of Justice, Judge Maria Emília Melo e Castro handed lawyers in the civil action a written statement evaluating as proven […]

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Award: Vilamoura Marina named best in the world – London, UK

18 January 2015

Vilamoura Marina, located in Algarve, southern Portugal, was named ‘Best International Marina’ for 2015 in an awards ceremony held in London. The award was voted by international owners of visiting vessels throughout 2014. Marinas are sorted and ranked depending on the quality and versatility of the services they provide. The classification is made of 1 […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Food & Wine, Life Style, Portugal, Travel, World

Community: Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies Program announced – UMass, Lowell

16 January 2015

The Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, in partnership with the Luso-American Foundation of Lisbon (Portugal) and the American Foundation/UMass Lowell College of Fine Arts, Humanities, announced the creation of the ‘Social Sciences Visiting Professor in Portuguese Studies Program,’ underwritten in part by community based philanthropists Elisia Saab […]

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Book: ‘European Slave Trading in the Indian
Ocean, 1500–1850′ – Editor’s Note

15 January 2015

Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must […]

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