They did a mess in Brazil too. Extracted what they could, be it wood or gold and everything in between. Gold in particular was a pretty good shakedown. We learned about all the B.S. at school.

I am Brazilian. I do not blame the current Portuguese people. Heck, I don't even blame the Portuguese back then, just their government. I want Portugal to prosper.

Asking for an official apology is fine. Blaming ordinary people who are just trying to live their lives, is not fine.

The only thing to apologize is to ourselves. We should haver never went there and left you in the stone age.

All the infrastructure we left you weren't able to maintain, as it happened with 99% of the African countries.

Total mystery why.

And what does some historical injustice have to do with ordinary people being pushed out of their homes? Maybe you could try to not put them all in one caste and judge them all as a single entity?

Really, it is not appropriate to wish them all suffering, because of some historical fact, which they most like did not have a hand in. A little empathy seems appropriate. Maybe with more empathy in the world, we would also see some more apologies for historical injustices.

Actually, that is something many middle-aged Portuguese are keenly aware of. Either because they lost relatives in that war or because they are still trying to figure out how to cope with the mistakes of that generation (most people who lived through that are gone - and so are their worldviews - so I don’t see any point in demonizing the dead).

Oh please, don't bias against the portuguese people (or anyone else) for what their ancestors did. You are not being better than those who think every african american is violent and uneducated.

Ironically, many Portuguese have moved to Angola since the Great Recession.