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By Max Coutinho
Remember Lisbon in the 1940’s and 50’s? Spies from all over the world met in the Portuguese Capital to do what they do best: gather Intel. The same had happened before, around 1554, when Euro-spies would gravitate around Portugal to get intel about Spanish Political Activities and Intentions.
Fastforwarding to 2023: Portugal is back on the International Intelligence Map.
News outlets claim Iran, England and China, for example, are in Portugal looking to recruit Portuguese “brains”. Interesting. Is Portugal so ill-reputed that great nations such as the Persians, the British and the Red Dragons have the need to come and recruit the Portuguese Youth as assets?
Low wages, moral bankruptcy, nepotism, cronyism, an assault on self-merit, absence of Justice and homelessness contribute to the notion that others can come to Portugal and “bribe” our youngsters with the “glamorous” life of the Intelligence World…for the greater good. Even though it is an inglorious way of life, the pay is very good - in comparison to 760€ or even 860€ wages…which selfish, materialistic, bewildered and shallow individual wouldn’t betray his/her country before such a scenario?
It’s not a secret that the Portuguese Government has, in the past, passed some sloppy immigration laws as a way to combat its own Financial Crisis. On one hand it worked - immigrants are actually funding the pensions and welfare benefits of the Portuguese; but on the other hand it also opened the gates to all sorts of people swarming into its National Territory: Americans, Swedish, Spanish, Italians, Germans, Dutch, Middle Easterns…
Why? What for? Tax breaks? It’s too simplistic and there are other countries that are far more fiscally attractive than Lusitania…Portugal has a high cost of living and its ways do not match everybody’s ways; and only a creature with an objective endures the Portuguese Experience…”E no Easy” as the song goes.
Follow the breadcrumbs…what does 1554, 1940’s/50’s and 2023 have in common?
Food for thought.
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