In questo giorno 51 anni fa, il Portogallo ha la sua dittatura

Here’s to freedom and the power of people coming together! 🇵🇹🇪🇺

Freedom and peace FTW!

Four months from now on, the 50th anniversary of the failed last-ditch attempt to install a far-left dictatorship in Portugal (whereas in Spain there were some attempts to restore the far-right Franco dictatorship) will be held, after which, in 1975, the country’s democracy began to be stabilized. However, despite this, polarization would remain high, with occasional terrorist attacks, and with terrible far-left economic policies being adopted, which led to two IMF bailouts in 1977 and 1983. The latter’s adjustment process itself led to an economic crisis.

The one good outcome from these years was that Portugal was one of the few European countries in this period where inequality declined. Also, there was a genuine commitment to democratic and economic reforms, and after Greece in 1981, Portugal, together with Spain, entered the EEC (to be transformed into the EU in 1993) in 1986 and adopted a more sensible path on the economic front, leading to a boom that would broadly last until 2000. The highly contested 1985 legislative and especially the 1986 presidential elections would be the last outpourings of the social changes resulting from the 1974 Carnation Revolution, after which the country, buoyed by an ongoing prosperity, stabilized for good.

The lesson: centrist democracy is much better than anything else. An attempt to just do the opposite of the Salazar dictatorship, with all of its human rights violations, would also have bad results. Spain saw this and learned to not either swerve into the far-left or restore the far-right dictatorship in either politics or the economy, leading to a better economic performance in the decade following democratization and arguably less polarization.

April 25th, always.

Lets see if the US can follow their great example!

I know Salazar was a dictator, was he also fascist like some people claim?

What are the lessons we can learn? We better learn fast.

Buon 25 aprile, here in Italy as well we are remembering the end of Fascism in 1945.

Ora e sempre Resistenza!

Unfortunately this revolution gave to much power to the Far Left and they tried to take over the country, thanks God they failed,I hope 25 of November gets celebrated as hard as 25 of April.