Portuguese American Journal

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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 Maria João Pires: Acclaimed piano virtuoso announces the end of her career
 

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 […]

Maria João Pires: Acclaimed piano virtuoso announces the end of her career – Portugal

Maria João Pires, one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists and a central figure in Portuguese and European classical music, has formally announced that she has ended her career as a performer. The declaration was made during the award acceptance ceremony for the Helena Vaz da Silva European Award, held on November 1 at the […]

Opinion: Cooperation not conflict will save life on Earth – by Len Port

22 February 2022

So much aggression across the world is making it increasingly difficult to focus, even here in peaceful Portugal, on the biggest threat of all to the future of humanity: climate change. The arguing over Ukraine, now getting close to all-out war, atrocities in Afghanistan, mass killings in African nations, Islamic terrorism, child abuse within the […]

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Music: Andreia Pinto Correia performing for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra – NYC

17 February 2022

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra will premiere the work, Os Pássaros da Noite [The Birds of Night], on March 17-19, by Portuguese composer Andreia Pinto Correia, under the direction of conductor Gustavo Dudamel who will also direct Robert Schumann’s third and fourth symphonies. According to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s website, the piece was commissioned […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Protest: Constitutional Court call for new elections creates constitutional crisis – Portugal

15 February 2022

Judges of the Constitutional Court, unanimously, decided today to nullity all the votes of the Portuguese emigrants who cast their ballots in the electoral constituency of Europe for the general elections of January 30, 2022. The court rule, which calls for new elections, was taken after over 157,000 votes, cast by Portuguese living in the […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, Politics, Portugal, World

Book | Ursula | by Maria Firmina dos Reis – Editor’s Note

12 February 2022

Written within the literary conventions of the Romantic movement and published decades before other Brazilian abolitionist novels, Ursula (1859) offers a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of enslaved African and Afro-Brazilian characters. While readers follow the story of the plantation owner’s daughter Ursula, her doomed romance with Tancredo, and her uncle’s diabolical schemes to entrap her […]

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

Opinion: Portuguese Legislative Election 2022 – Open Letter

31 January 2022

By Frank Ferreira  An “Open Letter” to the Portuguese Diaspora Around the World. An In-Person Audience with the President of the Republic Sought. The Next Government Must Reform the Electoral System – “No Voter Should be Denied their Constitutional Right of Suffrage. If No Reforms, The Matter Will be Taken to the European Court of […]

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Elections: Absolute majority to incumbent socialist PM António Costa – Portugal

31 January 2022

Portuguese voters delivered a surprising absolute majority to incumbent Prime Minister António Costa, the head of the ruling Socialist Party (PS) who won the Sunday’s snap general election. António Costa is serving as the current Prime Minister of Portugal since 26 November 2015. The Socialist Party (PS) won 117 seats in the 230 seat parliament, […]

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