Portuguese journalists
are increasingly concerned by Angola's growing investment and influence in
their country. Buoyed by petrodollars and diamonds, powerful Angolan interests
have been indulging in a buying spree in their former colonial power. Angolan capital invested in Portugal increased
35 times in the past decade, according to news reports. In a process often acidly described in Lisbon
as a form of "reverse colonization," Angolans have gobbled up not only
significant chunks of Portugal's banking, telecommunications, and energy companies,
but also invested in the Portuguese media sector.
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