Portugal’s democracy turns 50: big crowd commemorates Carnation Revolution
Lisbon, Portugal Reuters Tens of thousands of people marched through Lisbon on Thursday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s “Carnation Revolution” that toppled the longest fascist dictatorship in Europe and ushered in democracy. Support for the far right has revived in Portugal in recent years but a large crowd took to the streets of […]
Portugal celebrates democracy anniversary amid far-right surge
Santarem, Portugal Reuters Veteran military officer Captain Joaquim Correia Bernardo, 84, remembers the revolution that toppled Portugal’s fascist dictatorship five decades ago as if it were yesterday. He was in his thirties when he helped organise the 25th April, 1974, military coup that returned Portugal to democracy after 48 years of authoritarian rule. Colonel Correia […]
Essay: How Haiti became a failed state
NICHOLAS FORSANS, co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Essex University in the UK, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation, at the background to the deteriorating security situation in Haiti…
Recalling years of repression: The Catholic Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship. An archive tells the story
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on how documents gathered by the human rights organisation Vicariate of Solidarity shed light on how the church aided those suffering under the Pinochet regime…
Essay: Fifty years after the Uruguay coup, why so few people have been brought to justice for dictatorship crimes
Latin American scholar FRANCESCA LESSA, in an article first published on The Conversation, says that despite very limited justice for dictatorship-era atrocities in Uruguay, hope may be on the horizon…