22 October 2014
Portugal was elected Tuesday by UN General Assembly to the 15 member UN Human Rights Council for a three year term (2015-2017) beginning January 1, 2015. Portugal won with 184 votes of 193. Portugal had presented its candidature to the Human Rights Council (HRC) for the term 2015-2017 in January 2011. Speaking before the 69th […]
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21 October 2014
Joe Gouveia was an influential regional poet. He flourished throughout Cape Cod as a radio personality, a tireless promoter of poetry readings, and a ready and willing friend and champion to poets of any stripe at any level, starting out or established. He died on May 10, 2014, at the age of 49. The “words […]
21 October 2014
The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at UMD are presenting a public screening of the film Deportado (2012) 67’ by Nathalie Mansoux. Filmed in New Bedford, Fall River and the Azores, this documentary examines the forced repatriation of legal, Azorean immigrants from the US to their places of origin and […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Community, Conferences, Education, Featured, Film, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
20 October 2014
The Long Island Portuguese American Leadership Conference (“LIPALC”) has found thousands of dollars belonging to Portuguese organizations in the United States as the result of a public service initiative coordinated by its Chairman, Gabriel Marques. Marques serves as the Senior Economic Advisor to the Nassau County Comptroller and has helped identify over $50,000 in abandoned […]
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19 October 2014
When Charles II returned home he began the search for a dynastic marriage. He fixed upon the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza, whose dowry included the possession of Tangier, Bombay and valuable trade concessions. The Portuguese had been fighting for their independence from Spain for twenty years and needed alliances to tip the scales […]
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12 October 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) While freedom of expression is said to be the cornerstone of democracy, of late it seems to be on shaky ground. It remains on a steady footing in Portugal compared to most countries and that is probably because of prevailing moral attitudes as much as the fact that it is enshrined […]
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