Victor Angelo

An unrelenting holiday season Victor Ângelo   This could be a troubled end of the year, on the international scene. There are three ma...

Suu Kyi and our Ursula Victor Angelo     I intended to write about the coup d'état in Myanmar. I follow regularly what happens t...

Biden on the trapeze and the world on the tightrope Victor Angelo   Much of what is decided in the circle of power in Washington has a...

Data and acts are truly clear. Covid is a serious threat. To life and to the economy. Only a fool can pretend otherwise. And if such fool oc...

I got a couple of emails from the US on President Trump´s covid infection. The messages were similar and expressing deep worries that the Pr...

Some European states are battling a growing number of coronavirus-infected cases. This is again a major challenge and people are getting a b...

  Translation of yesterday’s opinion piece I published in Diário de Notícias (Lisbon). 22 Aug. 2020   Back to the imponderables Victor...

Translation of today’s opinion piece I published in Diário de Notícias (Lisbon) This is no time for statues Victor Angelo A con...

As we get closer to August, which is the annual holiday month, we realise this year everything is different. In our part of Europe, peopl...

The current pandemic crisis is a major global disruptor. It will have a complex cluster of impacts in many areas, from the political one ...

This moment in our lives calls for prudence, tolerance, and generosity. These are the values that will take us through the deep crisis we...

This afternoon I called a few people in Africa, to find out how the pandemic is affecting their fellow citizens. And I got the same messa...

Philosophers, sociologists, and other social scientists are exchanging lots of views about the political and societal impact of the coron...

It is time to define the priority sectors that would require reform, innovation, and fresh resources. That is what some European governme...

On this Independence Day in the US, it is obvious the country and the world have a big problem to confront and resolve. The Covid-19 pand...

We cannot look at tomorrow’s world with yesterday’s eyes. But that is what most of us are doing because that is the way we feel more conf...

The pandemic is still moving around, in our corner of the world. It is not just a problem in the Americas or elsewhere. It should continu...

If I had to select a piece of today’s news, I would go for the WHO Director-General’s warning that the pandemic is still growing in many ...

Yesterday, I took the plane for the first time in this post-Covid era. I had a compelling reason to travel. It was a three-hour trip ...

People in Europe are rapidly moving past the pandemic and looking forward to a normal summer. There are still a number of restrictions in...