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 […]
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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. […]
20 July 2013
Remittances from Portuguese living abroad went up 9.12% in the first five months of the current year to €1.14 billion, according to figures released by the Band of Portugal (BP). France and Switzerland were the countries where Portuguese emigrants sent most money back between January and May, €76.8 million and €53 million respectively. Portuguese who […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal
18 July 2013
Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa claimed that he did not evolve, but rather travelled. This book provides a state of the art panorama of Pessoa’s literary travels, particularly in the English-speaking world. Its eighteen short, jargon-free essays were written by the most distinguished Pessoa scholars across the globe. They explore the influence on Pessoa’s thinking of […]
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