Margarida

Margarida is twenty-six years old. She works behind the bar at the Tasca do Chico in Bairro Alto, Lisbon. She wanted, once, to be a librarian. She has not stopped wanting this. Foreign journalists have, over the last three years, used her as a source for stories about the Lisbon port. None of them have asked her any questions about libraries.

The compiler of the present archive met her in March 2026 and asked her about libraries on the second visit. She has been, since that conversation, the compiler's quietly reliable source on the port strike, on the union committee her uncle sits on, and on what the longshoremen's families have not been telling the foreign press. She has not, to the institution's knowledge, ever been a person of interest.

The institution has been asked to clarify whether this assessment remains current. The institution has declined to clarify.