Portugal in election week was like a nation under siege—and, in a sense, it was. The air force was alerted. Naval patrol boats growled offshore, and ground troops earmarked for the revolt-torn African ...

Fifty years since Portugal’s democratic revolution, the far-right Chega party is on the rise. It’s exploiting disaffection with mainstream parties — but also nostalgia for the days when dictator ...

José Filipe Costa, the director of the Rotterdam Film Festival entry about Portugal's António de Oliveira Salazar, reflects on religious themes, politics in the U.S. and Germany, and "the violence of ...

LOWELL - Ever wondered what was going through the minds of ordinary Portuguese citizens during António de Oliveira Salazar’s regime – Europe’s longest dictatorship in the 20th century? On Wednesday, ...

Military vehicles and red carnations returned to the streets and squares of downtown Lisbon on Thursday as Portugal reenacted dramatic moments from the army coup that brought democracy to the country ...

To the sensitive traveler the government of a country is almost as palpable as its geography. The ruler prints his own lineaments upon the ruled clearly as he stamps them on his medals. Everywhere the ...

"In 1974, I was 18 and beginning my university studies in Lisbon. However, on 25 April, I found myself in Porto, seeking the tranquility of family to study. We sensed that something significant was ...

Last week Portugal produced no big spot news ; it hadn’t for 20 years ; it might not for 20 years more if the God he strove so hard to serve spared Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. For Salazar distrusted ...

LISBON (Reuters) - The Portuguese prefer not to talk, much less joke, about the 1932-1968 fascist dictatorship of Antonio Salazar - which may explain why it has taken a "superhero" to broach the topic ...

LISBON (Reuters Life!) - A plan by a Portuguese town hall to honour former dictator Antonio Salazar in the form of a red wine produced in his home region is stirring controversy 42 years after his ...