Portugal: Fifty Years Since the Carnation Revolution

John Green Portugal’s democracy turns 50 as large crowdscommemorate the Carnation Revolution Fifty years ago, on April 25, 1974, Portugal was shaken by an earthquake. Not a geological earthquake, like the one in 1755 that razed Lisbon to the ground and killed around 50,000 people, but a political one, with only four victims. It was … Continue reading Portugal: Fifty Years Since the Carnation Revolution