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Aug
2021
Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
categories: academic library
https://mondediplo.com/2004/04/15mozambique
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho — the leader of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, which toppled the Estado Novo dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar in April 1974 — died last week aged 84. Born in Mozambique, Saraiva de Carvalho negotiated its independence a few months after the revolution, as well as those of Angola and Guinea-Bissau. As an ally of the most leftwing faction of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), he found himself increasingly marginalised as Portugal became a European democracy.
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