Saturday, May 19, 2012

Portugal: The Movement of Talent

Anyone who recalls Portugal's bloody colonial wars may find this hard to believe. An excerpt from Der Spiegel:

"For every shipwreck in Portugal, there is a lifebuoy in Angola. Here a professional desert, there an oasis," raves the Lisbon weekly magazine Visão. Since the end of the four-decades-long war, Angola has seen frenetic rebuilding. Roads, railways, airports, housing, schools and hospitals need to be built. But the country also needs help organizing its electricity and water supply, developing Internet access and revamping the agricultural sector.

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