Four dead from PIDE/DGS fire remain the day's ledger -- low is not none. 1974-76 saw nationalisations, land occupations, and a near-miss of civil conflict. Angola's independence became a Cold War war. Retornados flooded Portugal.
25 April is a Portuguese civic holiday. English travel writing keeps the flowers and drops the African dead of the prior decade. This atlas will not. Memory of a gentle coup stays dated: 1974-04-25 (Carmo surrender) in Lisbon and Portuguese armed forces; aftershocks in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau.
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Four dead from PIDE/DGS fire remain the day's ledger -- low is not none. 1974-76 saw nationalisations, land occupations, and a near-miss of civil conflict. Angola's independence became a Cold War war. Retornados flooded Portugal.
25 April is a Portuguese civic holiday. English travel writing keeps the flowers and drops the African dead of the prior decade. This atlas will not. Memory of a gentle coup stays dated: 1974-04-25 (Carmo surrender) in Lisbon and Portuguese armed forces; aftershocks in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau.
25 April was gentle in Lisbon because it was exhausted in Guinea, Angola and Mozambique -- a soldiers' coup against a war the dictatorship would not end. The low-intensity opposite of Chile 1973 -- and a pairing for Korea 1979 about what officers do to a state.
Another 1970s captains-and-generals story with a darker Korean outcome -- compare, do not copy. 1976, not 25 April morning, is when a constitution locked a European democracy. The year in between was noisy.
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