25 July 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Economic chaos, political scandals, social violence, revolutions and wars punctuated by natural disasters sparked by extreme weather conditions dominate the headlines across the world in the second decade of the 21st century. So what’s new? We tend to think we live in unique times, but the world has seen it […]
24 July 2013
The United States House of Representatives passed unanimously yesterday, Tuesday, July 23rd , an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that prohibits the US Air Force from reducing the force structure at Lajes Field in Fiscal Year 2014. Last year, the United States had informed the Portuguese government that the future of the Lajes Air […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, Terceira
23 July 2013
The President of Portugal, Anibal Cavaco Silva, has appointed Rui Machete, 73, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Rui Machete, the former President of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), is a senior leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD). He had served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Defense before being appointed Deputy Prime Minister […]
22 July 2013
Pope Francis arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to preside at the World Youth Day [Jornada Mundial da Juventude] sponsored by the Catholic Church. The event will be held from July 23 to July 28. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff welcomed the Pope on arrival from his flight from Rome. More than 2 million people are […]
21 July 2013
An art gallery in Toronto in 2009 entitles its exhibit “Saudades for Tomorrow,” and a politician in New Bedford, Massachusetts, defines saudade as “nostalgic longing… the spirit of Portugal.” While a London copy-editor, apologizing for his heresy in suggesting that “saudade need only pass into English when it refers to something more metaphysical, e.g. discussing […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal
20 July 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Good news for the wildlife in Portugal’s cork oak forests, for everyone working in the country’s cork industry and for those of us who are fed up with corkscrews. In the international wine market, the use of screw caps has soared in recent years to the detriment of cork stoppers. […]
