Over the past year, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries marked its 30th anniversary amid change: a suspended member state, a contested presidency and an economic agenda still waiting to be delivered.
The Portuguese language united media coverage from Lisbon to Dili, while democracy, leadership and mobility divided the conversation across the nine member states. At the same time, youth, oceans and citizenship opened up a forward-looking narrative with a clearly positive tone.
CARMA’s The Lusophone Conversation report examines what the media in all nine countries said about the anniversary, and shows how the same story can be read in opposite ways in different capitals.