MAPUTO, Mozambique – It is a curious vestige of Portugal's former rule over Mozambique, a statue of a dictator from the colonial era that faces a wall in downtown Maputo in what some observers joke is ...

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 ...

NEW BEDFORD – Infamously known as PIDE, the International and State Defense Police that existed during Portugal’s Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar has traditionally been associated ...

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, ...

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 ...

ALL over the world the winds of change are sweeping away the remnants of empires, but Portugal, the world’s last empire, drives stubbornly ahead into a roaring gale, convinced of the righteousness of ...

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 ...