Forty years
from the defeat of the fascist dictatorship by Salazar in Portugal.
An almost non-blood movement by the Portuguese army which was started
in the early hours on April 25th, 1974, and put an end to a brutal
dictatorship of nearly half a century in Portugal.
The movement
went down in history by the name "Carnation Revolution",
since thousands of Portuguese people in the streets were encouraging
soldiers to unite with the revolutioners by putting a carnation in
the barrels of their guns as an indication of peace and
reconciliation.
Today,
Portugal, as well as the rest of the European south countries are
under a peculiar neoliberal dictatorship imposed by a Europe which
stands very far from its original principles and values to serve the
big banks and corporations. The European neoliberal economic empire
is imposing for the first time in history, the most brutal measures,
not through a military dictatorship, but through an economic war and
the dictatorship of the markets.
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