"Vítor Gaspar: 'Ajustamento de Portugal é muito mais bonito'"

(daqui)

... E OS PORCOS COMUNAS DO "NEW YORK TIMES" QUE NÃO SE CANSAM DE ENLAMEAR O SANTO NOME DO AMADO COELHO NEM DE DESFAZER O NÓZINHO NA GRAVATA DA IMAGEM DE PORTUGAL "LÁ FORA"!... (o JMF vai espumar outra vez...)

Foto de Maurício Lima

"For a time, Portugal was seen as a role model in the grinding crisis. In return for an international bailout, its government cut services and raised taxes while its citizens patiently endured the hardships. But that ended in 2012, when the government appeared to make one demand too many. After Prime Minister Passos Coelho offered a plan to shift the burden of social security payments from employers to workers, tens of thousands took to the streets. Although the measure was meant to lower labor costs, the protest from workers was so ferocious that Mr. Coelho was soon forced to withdraw it".

"Voltámos a ganhar credibilidade em poucos meses" (Suburbia VI)

 

"Emilia Garcia, 46, stood in the Santa Filomena neighborhood in Amadora, Portugal, where local authorities have ruled that the entire neighborhood — predominantly home to immigrants from Cape Verde — is illegally occupied and have begun to demolish all of the homes there. Portugal has assiduously followed the belt-tightening prescriptions of its international lenders, passing on Tuesday yet another tough budget that raises taxes and cuts services". (daqui)