On September 11, 2026, several short reflections ironizing Madeira's political and media situation were published. The first observation notes that Albuquerque, knowing Montenegro's announcements, gets ahead and makes governance his own.
A second entry refers to a PDF file of an investigation conducted by the "Madeira Secret Agents", on a confidential mission to follow the trail of lost capital. This is a financial investigation dossier with documents, numbers, and decisions that are difficult to explain, where the team seeks to reconstruct events and understand where, how, and by whose decision the money was lost.
The third and main entry addresses the presentation in Funchal of the book "Struggles against the dictatorship from Democratic Portugal – transatlantic connections", by Edgar Silva and Élvio Passos, dedicated to the role of resistance journalism against censorship and the Salazarist regime. The article considers this event ironic in the current context of Madeira, where free and independent press has found itself progressively backed against the wall by dependence on regional subsidies, the pressure of concrete, and domesticated editorial lines.
The article concludes that, although journalism today no longer formally faces dictatorship, it encounters new mechanisms of conditioning. In Madeira, where scrutiny gives way to propaganda and investigative journalism gives way to government press releases, celebrating the memory of those who used the word to challenge established power is described as an uncomfortable mirror on the state to which regional journalism has arrived.
