AA Around the World

Portugal --AA has had a slow start here, and you could almost say that, like the Eastern Bloc, we have only recently been allowed to exist. Fill our Revolution in 1974, meetings of any form of group were prohibited. However, in the manner of these things, the roots were quietly being laid. In 1972, an Englishman, Reg W., on arrival from Brazil, started a small English-speaking group at the Corpo Santo Church, headquarters of the Irish Dominican Order. In 1976, an American, Ed L., started going to a "drunk tank" and talking about AA, where he helped two brothers start their recovery from alcoholism. One of them, Jorge L., became the founding member of Portuguese AA in 1979.