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Barack Obama was elected President of the (still) most powerful country on earth. My sister, who lives in Australia, came to visit us for a week. The world economy is going down, and down and the expectations for 2009 are quite scary. For [...]

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Susana is right when she says “Excuses are not made to be presented. They’re made to be avoided”, but here I’m apologizing for my long absence in this blog, and like her I have no great excuses to present. First it was a long month [...]

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When days don’t go the way I want. When work piles up in my desk. When my boss makes me want to scream… When I want to have a day only to take care of me but need to pay attention to everybody else… I [...]

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After 71 months of captivity in the jungle, Ingrid Betancourt is free! The Colombian army rescued the former presidencial candidate and 14 other hostages kept for several years in the hands of FARC, the biggest and oldest Colombian guerrillas.  A great day for fredoom, a [...]

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Yeah… after months of expectation, surprise and controversy, Barack Obama captured yesterday the Democratic presidential nomination. The atmosphere is enthusiastic, as he is the first black American to lead a major party in presidential elections. But many questions remain unanswered… and his first foreign policy speech wasn’t [...]

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Last week I visited Sweden in response to an invitation of foreign ministry of Sweden. They wanted to show Portuguese journalists some of the progresses made to improve environment standards, but when I left the country I was impressed by much more things than the [...]

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This news has some days, but I think good news don’t have expiration date: for the first time in Spanish political history, women outnumber men in the new Cabinet! Socialist prime-minister Jose Luis Zapatero chose eight men and nine women for his second term. Two [...]

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After a series of fatal dog attacks, most of them against children, Portuguese government decided to take drastic measures to fight the problem. Last year, a new law was approved to force the owners of dangerous dogs to register them and buy special insurances.
But the [...]

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After a long day writing about George W. Bush speech in the fifth anniversary of Iraq’s invasion, and can’t avoid make a balance of these war and the consequences for the country and the world.
Bush said his decision was fair and justified, that removing Saddam [...]

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M.P. made the question: will the second Super Tuesday in Democrat’s primary elections are going to be Hillary Clinton Waterloo? After and exhausting electoral night and several predictions in that sense, the final answer is no, she survived the test and is still on the [...]

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