That hullabaloo, lets just call it “uchambov” is plain, shit for brains.
—Venantius J Pinto On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Antonio Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > When Antonio Costa became the premier of Portugal, > there was a great hullabaloo that he was a Goan ( and > brahmin )because his father ( though born in Lourenco > Marques ) had residence on Abade Faria Road in Margao. > > Now that Antonio Guterres has been nominated to the > post of the Secretary General of the United Nations , Goan > connection , though feeble, is being proudly bandied about > because his wife was born and baptized in Goa in 1960 > just before the Portuguese relinquished their hold over Goa > in 1961, > > Catarina Marques de Almeida Vaz e Pinto was born in Goa > in 1960 to Luis de Castro Vaz e Pinto and Maria Jose Simoes > Marques de Almeida. > > One notices that her father has three surnames de Castro,Vaz > e Pinto and her mother has Simoes, Marques de Almeida. So > Catarina could not begin her life with six surnames, so her > parents decided to drop de Castro and Simoes from her > baptismal name. . > > About Catarina's Goan connection apart from birth and baptism > in Goa, one would like to know whether her parents ,for example, > were either from Benaulim or Saligao , for that would make her > a true daughter of sandy soil of Goa.
