This week in Portugal: The Carnation Revolution parade marches on, Politicians rally against anti-immigration, house prices rise, investors don’t get taxed, and the sabre-rattling continues.
By several estimates, as many people took to the streets on Thursday to celebrate Dia da Liberdade as in 1974, and far, far more than
“[Anabela Brito, who was a student in 1974, and a member of a leftwing political party] said the fight continues in Portugal for housing and a
Well, drink Coca-Cola, for one thing, because it was “associated with cocaine and the American way of life,” according to Público, which cites the book
Lluis Llach has long been a reference among protest singer-songwriters in Catalonia, ever since the last years of General Franco’s regime, in the early ’70s,
The Carnation Revolution was relatively bloodless, but there were, in fact, several people killed and many more wounded. But who were they? How did it happen? And why does it seem that these deaths have slipped through the cracks of history?
The Museu do Aljube takes us inside the prison that can be described as kind of purgatory between hell and hell, where prisoners were served a taste of hell to come. Step inside and have a look around.
Freedom is sweet. Freedom is everything. 25 de Abril sempre. Viva a Liberdade!