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...The wines win awards, the kitchens source from the Soares’ own estate gardens....
...Mr Lourenço’s approach to tackling corruption was also “extremely ambivalent”, said Mr Soares de Oliveira....
...One incident that has raised eyebrows involves Manuel Vicente, a former vice-president accused of corruption and money laundering by Portuguese prosecutors....
...Vicente encapsulates that,” said Mr Soares de Oliveira....
...Political differences strained long and close friendships with two colleagues on the left of the Socialist party, the late Francisco Salgado Zenha and the poet Manuel Alegre....
...Surely, it can no longer be vice-president Manuel Vicente, the bruised former head of Sonangol who is reeling under new corruption allegations?...
...Sociedade Francisco Manuel dos Santos, the holding company for Portugal’s wealthy Soares dos Santos family, which has been repeatedly named in media reports as the backer, has formally denied any involvement...
...“When the MPLA dropped its Marxist garb at the beginning of the 1990s . . . the ruling elite enthusiastically converted to crony capitalism,” writes Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, an Angola expert at Oxford...
...To the government’s critics, Mr Vicente embodies what Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, an Angola expert at Oxford university, calls “the privatisation of power”....
...Manuel Carvalho da Silva, head of CGTP-Intersindical, the main union confederation, says he is advising workers to take legal action against reforms and pay cuts that unions consider unconstitutional....
...Manuel Pinho held his two index fingers to his forehead, suggesting horns, the sign of a cuckold, during an exchange with a Communist deputy over miners’ jobs during a state-of-the-nation debate on Thursday...
...The distinctive nature of the islands’ relations with Europe was also the motivation behind an initiative launched in 2005 by Mário Soares, Portugal’s former president and most distinguished elder statesman...
...Home fires burn for Barroso If European Commission president José Manuel Barroso hopes to enjoy a festive Christmas, his native Portugal is probably not the place to go....
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