The Portuguese photographer Mário Cruz, a two-time World Press Photo winner, reveals the drama of people without resources or access to decent housing. His book ‘Roof’ was recently presented at the Rencontres d’Arles festival in France
Sweden Democrats, the Finns Party and Chega performed poorly at the June 9 vote, despite extremist groups making huge gains across the rest of the continent
A traditional mix of authenticity, melancholy, rusticity and modernity, the Portuguese capital has become a mecca for international tourism. But it has paid the price in the form of gentrification and the loss of its essence
The economy is experiencing a golden moment thanks to exports and tourism after cleaning up its accounts. But the country has paid a price in migration of qualified workers and reduction of public services
One-fifth of those polled in a recent survey hold a good opinion of the days of dictator António de Oliveira Salazar and his successor, Marcelo Caetano
The prime minister ignored the alarms about the business dealings of Diogo Lacerda Machado, his best man at his wedding, who was recruited by companies to take advantage of his political influence
The U.N. secretary-general, who came to Portuguese politics as a Catholic activist, has become a powerful voice in the face of international aggression and the climate emergency
Founded by Mário Soares in 1973, the party is the backbone of Portugal’s democracy – but celebrates half a century of existence in the midst of political turmoil
Novelist Deepti Kapoor addresses the complex tensions in her country through three characters bound by fate in the first installment of a trilogy that will be published in 16 countries
The European Court of Human Rights upholds a freedom-of-expression decision by Portugal’s Supreme Court pertaining to a police inspector’s hypothesis about the little girl’s disappearance
Two billionaires with Kremlin ties want to change nationalities under a rule designed for descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled centuries ago from the Iberian Peninsula
Born in modern-day Equatorial Guinea, Mbomo was taken as a teen to Spain where he became an airplane mechanic at a military air base. He caused a national stir when he married a white woman in 1936, went into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War, spent time in several internment camps and ended up leading a local group of the French Resistance. He was arrested and sent to a concentration camp in Germany, and survived an RAF bombing of the prisoner ship where he’d been transferred. EL PAÍS has reconstructed his extraordinary life based on newly found documents and family accounts
The US treasure hunter has paid $1.07m in legal expenses to the Spanish Treasury
The haul on the sunken Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes was protected by a 1902 treaty
Juan Negrín's granddaughter hands over 150,000 original documents for public consultation
Historians eager to reassess last Republican leader's political role