Portuguese American Journal

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Book | The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-75 | By Pedro Aires Oliveira et al Web Summit | Microsoft confirms $10 billion investment in AI data hub in Sines Community | Portuguese abroad urged to register for the 2026 Presidential Election Terceira | Scientists monitor ongoing seismic volcanic crises FLAD | Portuguese language has become an economic advantage study shows
 

Book | The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-75 | By Pedro Aires Oliveira et al – Editor’s Note

This book analyzes the liberation struggles that took place in the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cabo Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe during the second half of the twentieth century, highlighting how they unraveled and challenged colonialism in the international sphere. Activists established headquarters and training camps in various exile settings that were […]

Web Summit | Microsoft confirms $10 billion investment in AI data hub in Sines – Portugal

Speaking during the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Microsoft President Brad Smith confirmed that Microsoft plans to invest approximately US $10 billion in the creation of a next-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) data hub in Portugal. The project—one of the largest AI-focused infrastructure investments announced in Europe—will be developed in Sines in partnership with Start Campus […]

Community | Portuguese abroad urged to register for the 2026 Presidential Election – Portugal

Portuguese citizens living abroad are being urged to register or update their voter information before the end of November in order to participate in Portugal’s next presidential election, scheduled for 18 January 2026. The voting roll will freeze 60 days before Election Day, meaning that after November 19, 2025, no new registrations or address updates can be […]

Terceira | Scientists monitor ongoing seismic volcanic crises – Azores

Terceira Island remains under heightened scientific monitoring as the seismo-volcanic crisis that began in June 2022 continues, centered around the Santa Bárbara volcanic complex on the island’s western flank.  The Azores Seismo-Volcanic Information and Monitoring Center (CIVISA) currently maintains Alert Level V3 (reactivated volcanic system) for Santa Bárbara, reflecting persistent microseismic activity consistent with magma […]

FLAD | Portuguese language has become an economic advantage study shows – Portugal

A new study released by the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) finds that speaking Portuguese corresponds to an average 20% salary bonus for Portuguese-American workers in the United States. The report, developed for FLAD by a research group led by Alda Botelho Azevedo of the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade de Lisboa, underscores the growing […]

Travel: Tourists from the US are the fastest group visiting – Portugal

21 September 2012

Tourists from the United States are the fastest growing group visiting Portugal, according to the Portuguese national tourist board, Lusa reported. The number of US visitors who came to the country in the first six months of the year was up 7.5% compared to a year earlier, at 135,000, putting the US ninth in terms […]

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Posted in Featured, Madeira, Portugal, Travel, World

Heritage: Portuguese Americans consuming more products from old country

20 September 2012

Portuguese Americans in the US are buying more products from their homeland in a bid to help it overcome its economic crisis, according to the government official responsible for liaising with Portuguese citizens abroad, Lusa reported Thursday. At the end of a four-day visit to the US, Secretary of State for Communities, José Cesário, said he […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, People, Portugal, Spotlight

Profile: José Luís Peixoto has a gift for emotion and sensibility – Essay

18 September 2012

By Richard Simas, Contributor (*) José Luís Peixoto is a conduit for emotion.  Sensations emerge immediately in the opening lines of his fiction, poetry, and non-fiction as they do in his voice the moment he begins reading or talking about writing.  Whether evoking the starkly luminous Alentejo landscape of his youth or joyfully holding his recently […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Music, People, Portugal, World

Labor: Portuguese workers strike back at austerity measures – Update

17 September 2012

Workers at the Portuguese oil refineries in Sines and Matosinhos went out on strike Monday.  About 90% of workers had joined the protests expected to last for the next three days. The protests are against “unacceptable” changes to collective bargaining agreements which include a pay rise for workers of “just” 1%, while the company made a […]

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Posted in Azores, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal

Report: Portugal holds the third highest income inequality in the EU – Gini Index

14 September 2012

Portugal has the third highest level of household income inequality in the European Union, behind Latvia and Lithuania, according to a study by the consultancy firm Accenture. Portugal’s richest 20% notch up six times the level of income of the poorest 20%. The Gini Index measuring the discrepancies between the rich and poor comes in […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, Spotlight

Conference: Portuguese American Experience for the Classroom – Call for Papers

13 September 2012

The Institute for Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies at Modern Languages Department, Rhode Island College, has issued a call for papers under the topic, A Portuguese American Experience for the Classroom? The papers will be presented at a panel, at the 44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), scheduled for March 21-24, 2013, in […]

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Posted in Conferences, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations