1926: the year that buried the First Portuguese Republic and inaugurated 48 years of dictatorship. Four presidents in rapid rotation, political chaos, and coup after coup. Rui Tavares presents José Mendes Cabeçadas Júnior (1883–1965), the paradoxical Algarvian who was an agent in the implementation of two regimes: a republican hero of the 5th of October 1910, a plotter of the 28th of May 1926, president for 17 days, and, later, a regretful remnant.