2024-04-15 04:05:58
In ten days the Portuguese will celebrate half a century of freedom and democracy. The next twenty-five will mark fifty years since the Carnation Revolution, the coup d’état, better known as the “Carnation Revolution”, which put an end to more than four decades of Salazar dictatorship. It was an important event because it marked the beginning of the liquidation of the fascist regimes that still existed in Europe, more precisely, in the Iberian Peninsula. The other was the dictatorship of General Franco, which maintained the prolongation of many of the dramatic and cruel memories of the Civil War.
The half-century anniversary of that day of unprecedented popular celebration, which exploded illustrated by the spring carnations that the residents took to the streets of Lisbon that day, will once again recover this year that joy that perpetuated it. They were the beginning of a stage of some difficulties that immediately led to decades of political and social stability that led to the independence of six colonies that had now become countries and the metropolis, leaving them out of poverty and the fear that the regime he had condemned the Portuguese.
This commemoration cannot go unnoticed in Spain because no one ignores that it had a decisive impact on the democratizing process that society demanded and would seem condemned to perpetuate itself. Tens of thousands of Spaniards took advantage of those days to cross the border to share the euphoria of such forgotten neighbors who were giving us a lesson about the political future that we all had to get on track. It still took Spain a few months to undertake the same process, it was necessary to wait for the death of the dictator, but the image of Portuguese evolution never ceased to be an example and a challenge of wills.
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