A military coup worthy of celebration
24 April 2024, 17:11
Practically bloodless (four deaths), popular, romantic and surreal in due doses and enviable (Romanian soldiers, like the Portuguese, put carnations in their rifles in the revolt against Ceausescu in 1989), the April 25 revolution in Lisbon, the last in Western Europe, it was also particularly fortunate, as a repressive regime of 48 years whose figure, António de Oliveira Salazar – a unique case of a fascist dictator – collapsed in a matter of hours illustrated–, had already disappeared four years earlier, in 1970.