Castelos no Ar

Portugal ended yesterday a process in which, once more, history was made. Sadly, a place in history is not always conquered by nice deeds or fine achievements. In 2003 Portugal has already proved that when Durão Barroso hosted, in Azores, the Lajes Summit in which Aznar, Blair and Bush, with his acquiescence, decided one of […]

In 1946 TIME magazine published an article about Portugal. In it, the country was described as “a melancholy land of impoverished, confused and frightened people”. And Salazar was depicted as a living example of Lord Acton’s law of politics: “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In the magazine’s cover, a wrotten […]