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Sports | Cristiano Ronaldo retiring from Portuguese national team Diplomacy Community | Azores Government offers cultural exchange grants for diaspora applicants Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans
 

Sports | Cristiano Ronaldo retiring from Portuguese national team – Portugal

Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the greatest players in world sports history and Portugal’s most celebrated footballer, announced on Thursday, November 5, that he is retiring from the Portuguese national team. The 41-year-old Madeira-born superstar announced his decision in an emotional social media video, saying the time had come to relinquish Portugal’s iconic No. 7 jersey. […]

Diplomacy – Portugal and the United States reaffirm cooperation with the Azores – Washington, DC

Portugal and the United States have reaffirmed this week their strategic partnership, emphasizing continued American military cooperation at Lajes Air Base, on Terceira Island in the Azores, at the 53rd meeting of the Portugal–United States Standing Bilateral Commission, held in Washington on November 3. Under the framework of the 1995 bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement, commonly […]

Community | Azores Government offers cultural exchange grants for diaspora applicants – Azores

The Government of the Azores has opened applications for grant opportunities supporting cultural and community projects in Azorean emigrant communities abroad, as well as educational exchanges and immigrant integration initiatives for 2027.  The funding opportunities are particularly relevant to Azorean organizations, cultural associations, and educational institutions in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, Brazil, and other […]

Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization – Portugal

Portugal has selected Germany’s Lufthansa Group as the strategic investor in TAP Air Portugal, marking a significant turning point for the country’s aviation industry and with important implications for Portuguese communities in the United States, Canada, and beyond.  The selection does not mean that Lufthansa has already taken ownership of TAP. Rather, it represents a […]

Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans – Portugal

Former United States President Barack Obama returned to Lisbon on Saturday, October 10, where he delivered a keynote address at the 6th edition of the Game Changers Forum.  During his two-day stay in Lisbon, Obama met with Portuguese President António José Seguro at the Palácio de Belém, the official residence of the Portuguese head of […]

Poetry: Florbelian Symbology and the Speaking Woman – Essay

28 September 2012

By Billie Maciunas, Contributor (*) Florbela Espanca’s distinctly feminine symbology was recognized in the 1940s by the Portuguese poet and critic, Jorge de Sena.This symbology in part accounts for the scant recognition that Espanca received during her lifetime as a figure in Portuguese letters. As de Sena (1959) recognized, Espanca’s poetry was alien to the […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal

Labor: Portuguese workers to protest against extreme austerity policies – Update

25 September 2012

Portuguese workers nationwide will protest again Saturday, September 29, against the latest government issued austerity rules. Large gatherings of protesters are expected to concentrate in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal’s largest cities. The protests are being called by CGTP (Central Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses) the largest Portuguese union federation, representing 727,000 workers in 81 unions. Last […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, Politics, Portugal, Spotlight

Elected: President Dos Santos to be sworn for five term in office – Angola

24 September 2012

President José Eduardo dos Santos is to be sworn President of Angola, for a five-year term in office, Wednesday, following the Angolan Constitutional Court’s announcement that all appeals presented by opposition parties were dismissed as groundless. The official final results of the 31 August polls gave dos Santos and his MPLA party 71.28% of the […]

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Posted in Angola, People, Politics, Spotlight, World

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

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