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UPDATE (4/5/10) --  According to the Boston Globe, the victim is Manuel “Junior” DaVeiga from Quincy. Manuel was in Dorchester to pay condolences to the family of his friend Andrew Tavares, also shot to death on March 28 in Roxbury, and visit his makeshift memorial on Navillus Terrace.

The Boston Globle: “John Cardosa, who grew up with 19-year-old DaVeiga near the site of the shooting, said he and several other friends were standing by the memorial when they heard two shots ring out and saw numerous police officers rush in their direction.

“Then there were more shots and more shots,’’ said Cardosa. “They didn’t have to shoot him like that, 15 times. He was running away and they just kept shooting at him.’’
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“The two law enforcement officials said officers believed DaVeiga was a gang member and carried a gun. When the officers approached DaVeiga, he fled, then turned around and began firing at them, the sources said. The officers returned fire, they said. (…) One of the two sources said DaVeiga was shot in the head and stomach.”
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“My brother would never kill himself,’’ said Carla DaVeiga, Manuel's sister. “He didn’t have the greatest life but he wouldn’t kill himself. He wouldn’t take the easy way out. The cops are the ones who are cowards. They shot him 15 times.’’

DORCHESTER (4/4/10) -- A teenager believed to be 18 or 19 years old was shot to death after a gunfire exchange with police last night in a Boston neighborhood heavily populated by Cape Verdeans.
    
The shooting took place at 11 Navillus Terrace, off Bowdoin Street around 9:30 PM.

According to the Boston Globe, “officers approached a man at about 9:30 p.m., and he drew a firearm and began shooting at officers, Linskey said. “The officers returned fire,” Linskey said at a press briefing last night.”

The victim identity has not been released yet.
    
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BOSTON -- Numa recente entrevista organizada por Criolo Sports e o programa Tarde Desportiva na Radio Nha Terra (107.1 FM Boston), o jogador do Sporting da Praia, Tigana, fala sobre as causas que levaram ao seu fracasso durante o estágio com o Chicago Fire da primeira liga do campeonato de futebol nos Estados Unidos, MLS.

Videos (Fonte: criolosports.com e Tarde Desportiva):

Parte I

Parte II

BY PETER DA SILVA

Coach Jack gives us insight into his coaching style, player development, and a fundamental approach to the beautiful game.

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BISSAU - Segundo fontes próximas do MpD, Carlos Veiga foi acolhido entusiásticamente por mais de 500 pessoas no espaço Lenox durante a sua visita à comunidade cabo-verdiana em Guiné-Bissau de 18 a 23 do mês corrente.

O lugar esteve “completamente abarrotado com pessoas sentadas e pessoas em pé. Carlos Veiga foi ovacionado arrepiadamente no fim do seu discurso”, disse a mesma fonte.

Depois do seu regresso à cidade da Praia, O presidente do MpD disse, numa conferência de imprensa, que “os resultados obtidos superaram as expectativas e foram excelentes”. O Sr. Veiga sublinhou que foram recebidos “com muito entusiasmo, atenção e interesse e contou com o apoio expresso de centenas de compatriotas”.

Interpelado sobre o recenseamento na diáspora, o Sr. Veiga disse que o processo está bastante atrasado mas que pode ser resolvido se “houver vontade política”. Também o mesmo sugeriu que devem ser criadas comissões de recenseamento local, para que que se evite fraude eleitoral “pondo em causa a credibilidade do processo e da democracia”.

Veja o vídeo da visita de Carlos Veiga a Guiné-Bissau: 

  Enviado por Benvindo Rodrigues

LOS ANGELES (All Africa) -- The 2010 Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) in Los Angeles featured the world premiere of Contract by Cape Verdean filmmaker Guenny K. Pires.

Contract is a documentary film that tells the story of thousands of Cape Verdean contract workers who traveled to the Portuguese colony of Sao Tome and Principe to work in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Cape Verdeans, and workers from Portugal's other African colonies, were forced or coerced into contracts obligating them to work on coffee and cacao plantations on the islands of Sao Tome and Principe. After decades of brutally hard labor, contract workers were often forced to stay in Sao Tome and Principe, unable to secure passage home.

Many of the Cape Verdean contract workers featured in the film still hold on to memories of home. Filmmaker Guenny Pires blends the stories of Cape Verdean families affected by the contract labor system with interviews with experts to tell this little known chapter in Africa's history.

The Cape Verdeans interviewed, including Pires' own uncle, share that after decades in Sao Tome and Principe, many have maintained their spiritual ties to their home. After marriages, children, and new lives established in Sao Tome and Principe, many of the Cape Verdean contract workers shown in the film expressed a strong desire to return home.

At the heart of Contract is the family story of the filmmaker himself. The film documents his journey to reunite his family after his uncle left for Sao Tome and Principe decades earlier. The emotional journey of Guenny Pires' family was the most salient aspect of the film.

Pires re-tells his uncle's departure for Sao Tome and Principe and the eventual loss of contact between his uncle and his family. Pires' speaks with various relatives and narrates the impact losing his uncle had on the family. This deeply emotional journal to reunite the family is one of the film's strengths.

Other aspects of the film are at times disjointed and difficult to follow. The film often jumps from personal story to historical documentary without warning. In addition, some of the experts interviewed for the film gave information that was culturally inaccurate and factually unclear. Portugal's colonial policies in Africa have been researched by several scholars, scholars who could have provided the insight needed to put the film in proper context.

The film will likely inspire viewers to want to learn more about Portugal's policy of bringing workers from its other African colonies to Sao Tome and Principe. Portugal, one of the last European countries to leave Africa did so in 1975, with no regard for the thousands of workers stranded in Sao Tome and Principe. The film provided a great opportunity to clearly outline the experiences of Cape Verdeans and other Lusophone Africans in Sao Tome and Principe, but fell a bit short of this.

This is one of Guenny Pires' first films and his passion for the fate and lives of the Cape Verdeans in Sao Tome and Principe is clear. The story of Pires' family is compelling and emotional. While Contract was premiered at PAFF, Pires says that the film is a work in progress. The film, even with issues of clarity and continuity, is one of the only documentaries to deal with the exploitative experiences of contract workers in Sao Tome and Principe.

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Produção e Apresentação: Alberto Pina & Fátima Almeida; Filmagem e Edição: Jorge Baluka

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