A bloodless army coup in Lisbon fifty years ago changed the world as much as it reshaped Portugal. The Carnation Revolution triggered, what Samuel Huntington calls, the “third wave of democratisation”
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This week sees the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese “Carnation” Revolution that erupted in 1974 and was finally tamed in 1976 with the election of a government led by Soares from the Socialist Party(SP). The moderate SP consolidated many reforms won in the previous two years but also restored the capitalist order.
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