Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mukuwedzera pakunyora kwake, Moderno akatungamira mabhizimisi akasiyana-siyana. Muna 1907, akatenga chitoro chemabhuku ndokutengesa mavhoriyamu enyika dzakawanda. Makore maviri gare gare, akatenga purazi remapineapple muFajã de Baixo, kwaakarima michero yokutumira kuUnited States. Akashandawo somumiririri weinishuwarenzi kumakambani akawanda ezvokutengeserana omunyika uye omunyika dzakawanda. Muna 1908, Moderno naSousa vakagadzira sangano rekutanga rekuchengetedza mhuka muAzores, vachigadzira Micaelense Society for the Protection of Animals (). Aida kugadzwa kweRepublic yePortugal uye akatsigira coup d'état
iyo yakatsiva umambo. Mukukurukurirana kwebumbiro remitemo kwakatevera, akapa zvinyorwa zvakawanda zvinotsigira kurambana kuti adzivirire vakadzi, akatsigira dzidzo yevakadzi uye akakurudzira kodzero dzevakadzi. Akabatana neRepublican League of Portuguese Women uye akapinda mune zvakawanda zvinoitwa nesangano. Muna August 1912, pavakanga vari muLisbon, de Sousa naModerno vakakudzwa neRepublican League nokuda kwezvavaiita pakuva vatsigiri vakuru vekodzero dzevakadzi uye dzidzo muAzores