‘Everyone Was in the Streets. I Just Felt Happiness’: Portugal Recalls the Carnation Revolution
25.04.24 | Cuca Margoux
by Clea Skopeliti
As the country marks 50 years since the end of fascism, people celebrate the coup’s legacy but say the fight must continue.
At 4am on 25 April 1974, Filipe Villard Cortez got the signal. He barricaded the door of the Monte Real air base commander’s room and cut his phone line. A few hours earlier, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution had begun.
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