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 ...

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 ...

Franco’s fellow Iberian dictator. Portugal’s António de Oliveira Salazar, was also faced with flaring discontent. Crowds of antigovernment rioters in Lisbon had to be dispersed by police flinging tear ...

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, ...

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 ...

New York Times Coverage Avoids the Third Rails of Sex Trafficking Audio By Carbonatix It’s hard to reason people out of positions that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place. One of the great ...

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 ...

Regarding Tunku Varadarajan’s review of Tom Gallagher’s “Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die” (Bookshelf, Dec. 3) about the Portuguese dictator António Salazar: My father left Vienna, Austria, in ...