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Azores Airlines | Diaspora fears losing a vital lifeline to their homeland Azores Honor | Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares Awarded the 2025 Camões Prize for Literature Update | Portuguese activists detained by Israel safely returned Book | The Cartographer of Absences: A Novel | By Mia Couto
 

Azores Airlines | Diaspora fears losing a vital lifeline to their homeland – Azores

The fate of Azores Airlines, the Azores’ international carrier and the only airline maintaining year-round direct service between the archipelago and North America, has become increasingly uncertain as the company’s privatization process faces new delays and mounting financial strain. The airline, part of the SATA Group, connects the islands to Boston, New York, San Francisco, […]

Azores – María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace laureate, could be of Portuguese ancestry – Venezuela

Although not established, genealogical research may link the ancestry of María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Venezuela, to Portuguese ancestry. Apparently, through Portuguese migrants to South America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, she descends from the Machado Zuloaga family, a prominent Venezuelan lineage. Her paternal ancestry can be […]

Honor | Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares Awarded the 2025 Camões Prize for Literature – Portugal 

The Angolan poet, historian, and essayist Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares is the winner of the 2025 Camões Prize, the most prestigious literary distinction in the Portuguese-speaking world. Born in Lubango, Huíla, Angola, in 1952, Ana Paula Tavares is regarded as one of the most influential voices in Lusophone African literature. Recognized for “her fruitful and […]

Update | Portuguese activists detained by Israel safely returned – Portugal

The four Portuguese citizens detained by Israeli authorities during the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza — Mariana Mortágua, Sofia Aparício, Miguel Duarte, and Diogo Chaves — have safely returned to Portugal. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangel,  confirmed their arrival at Lisbon Airport at 10:40 p.m. on Sunday, following diplomatic coordination […]

Book | The Cartographer of Absences: A Novel | By Mia Couto – Editor’s Note

Diogo Santiago is a celebrated Mozambican poet and intellectual, a well-known professor at the university in his country’s capital. In 2019, on the eve of a cyclone that will devastate the East African coast, he returns to his hometown of Beira to receive a tribute from his fellow citizens. As he travels across Mozambique, his […]

Book | Africa’s Gold Coast Through Portuguese Sources 1469-1680 | by Kwasi Konadu – Editor’s Note

19 March 2023

The Portuguese produced the earliest records for regions in West Africa, none more important than the Gold Coast. This edited volume provides a unique collection of sources written in Portuguese, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish for Africa’s Gold Coast, from the late 15th to 17th century. Students, scholars, and professionals with an avid interest in […]

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Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World

Community: Ambassador Francisco Duarte Lopes honors Portugal – Washington, D.C.

19 March 2023

By Naseer Ahmad Portugal has enjoyed friendly relations, which has stood the test of times, with United States. So, it is natural for Portugal to send the country’s best diplomats to Washington DC. H.E. Ambassador Francisco Duarte Lopes is one of the ablest diplomats to represent Portugal at a critical time in history. In accepting […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Featured, Portugal

Book | The Drinker of Horizons: A Novel | by Mia Couto – Editor’s Note

14 March 2023

In The Drinker of Horizons, the award-winning author Mia Couto brings the epic love story between a young Mozambican woman named Imani and the Portuguese sergeant Germano de Melo to its stirring close. We resume where The Sword and the Spear left off: While Germano is left behind in Africa, serving with the Portuguese military, […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Mozambique, People, Portugal, World

Travel: SATA Airlines to be sold before the end of the month – Azores

09 March 2023

According to the executive president of the SATA Group, Luís Rodrigues, SATA Airlines will be sold before the end of the month, following his living the company to become the executive chairman of TAP Air Portugal In an interview with RTP Açores, today, Rodrigues did not advance further details about the move to privatize SATA […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel

Opinion | Families struggling with cost of living – Portugal

08 March 2023

By Len Port The people of Portugal are struggling with a cost of living crisis that shows no sign of abating any time soon despite – and perhaps because of – sanctions imposed by the West on Russia in response to its war in Ukraine. Dr Uwe Werblow, now retired and living in the Algarve, […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, Portugal

March 8th | Portuguese women have come a long way – International Women’s Day

08 March 2023

March 8th has been the recognized date for International Women’s Day since 1914, when it was officially declared by the International Women’s Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a reminder of the progress made towards gender equality and the work still needed to be done. The day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, People, Politics, Portugal, World