14 October 2012
Vasco Cordeiro, 39, was elected Sunday Regional President of the Azores, with an absolute majority of 49% of votes. Cordeiro, the leader of the Socialist Party (PS) in the Azores, won 31 out of a total of 57 parliamentary seats for his party. A total of 12 political organizations were represented in the Sunday ballot. […]
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13 October 2012
Regional elections in the Azores will be held Sunday, October 14, to elected a new legislative assembly and government leader to replace incumbent socialist Carlos César, 16 years in office as the President of the Regional Government of the Azores . Vasco Cordeiro, the current Regional Secretary for the Economy, is now the Socialist Party […]
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12 October 2012
The President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, appointed Friday, Joana Marques Vidal, first Portuguese female Attorney General (PGR). Under Portugal’s Constitution, the President appoints the Attorney-General “at the counsel of the government.” Vidal will head the public prosecutor’s office, replacing Fernando Pinto Monteiro whose six year term ended October 9. Currently, she was the legal […]
12 October 2012
The Congregation Beth David, of Saratoga (CA), will honor Righteous Gentile, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, on October 14, beginning at 1:00pm. Sousa Mendes was Portuguese Consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, during the Second World War, who, in June of 1940, issued Portuguese visas of safe conduct to over 30,000 at-risk refugees, including an estimated 10,000 […]
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11 October 2012
Food cooked in a volcanic geyser, fish from the deep Atlantic and sweet bread, these are just a few of the delights that award-winning chef Ming Tsai explores during a trip overseas to the Azores, part of the special programming events planned to help celebrate the television milestone of his 10th Anniversary Season. Affiliated with […]
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09 October 2012
The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), of Massachusetts, is hosting an exhibition of 15th century Portuguese tapestries titled, The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries, on view from October 27 to December 31, 2012. The exhibit is open Tuesday-Sunday and holiday Mondays, 10 am-5 pm. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. Monumental […]
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