Latest news and stories about estado novo in Portugal for expats and residents.
Alfredo was imprisoned by the dictatorship and married Rosa while in jail: this is one of the stories of political prisoners featured in the exhibition 'While I Am Not Released: Letters of Love and Resistance' in Almada.
On Friday in Santa Comba Dão, the Interpretative Centre was opened to study the 48 years of the fascist regime in Portugal. An exhibition on censorship opened the doors of the Salazar School Canteen in Vimieiro.
The show “Em silêncio”, premiering on Saturday at the Teatro S. Luiz in Lisbon, takes the audience through the 48-year history of the Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal, based on historical documents and testimonies from political prisoners.
Inaugurated at the Salazar Canteen School in Santa Comba Dão, the space is under the scientific coordination of Ephemera. The Secretary of State says that 'studying the dictatorship is a responsibility of democracy'.
After two decades of progress and setbacks, the Interpretive Centre of the Estado Novo - Regime and Resistance has opened its doors at the Escola Cantina Salazar, with scientific coordination from the Ephemera Association, founded by Pacheco Pereira.
The Secretary of State attended the inauguration of the Interpretive Centre of the Estado Novo - Regime and Resistance, in Vimieiro, at the Escola Cantina Salazar.
In Santa Comba Dão, Viseu, the Estado Novo Interpretative Centre - Regime and Resistance opens to the public this Friday. A project surrounded by controversy that will bring to life the Salazar School Canteen, which was a model school during the Estado Novo, under the scientific coordination of the Ephemera Association, founded by Pacheco Pereira.
The man who travels with his cats, but they always end up fighting. And also, thirty years later, Salazar's hometown opens a centre to interpret the Estado Novo regime.
The project was conceived over 20 years ago. The vice-president says the interpretive centre will not be a 'museum to the dictator'.
The Estado Novo Interpretive Centre opens this Friday in Santa Comba Dão. It occupies a former primary school in the town where the Portuguese dictator was born and is dedicated to the study of the regime and the resistance.
Luís Nunes, vice president of Santa Comba Dão, explains the reasons for opening an Estado Novo Interpretive Centre. He states that the initiative will bring objectivity to the historical period.
It was necessary for “political will to override the noise” surrounding the project and the fear that a museum dedicated to the dictator was being prepared. The objective is to reflect on the Estado Novo.
More than two decades after the idea of a space dedicated to the Estado Novo divided Santa Comba Dão, the Estado Novo Interpretive Centre – Regime and Resistance opens this Friday in Vimieiro. The village awaits visitors, critics fear pilgrimages, and the municipality promises History.
From an early stage, the Estado Novo used aesthetic and methodological tools of modern propaganda, contributing significantly to a clear approach to what we now call political marketing.
An analysis of historical works regarding Portugal that faced censorship during the Salazar regime.
Twice in Washington, plans were drawn up to occupy the Azores, and there was even the slip of referring to the islands as if they were no man's land.
Allas's initial attraction was not a career in the PIDE, but rather military life, preferably spent in Africa. The African “bug” had bitten him during the four years spent in Guinea.
58 years ago, after being informed by doctors of Salazar's irreversible incapacity, the President of the Republic Américo Tomás announced to the Portuguese people the name of the new President of the Council of Ministers.
The publication 'Portugal Democrático' is being revisited as a significant historical example of journalism produced during the resistance.
António de Oliveira Salazar is no longer an honorary doctor of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The revocation of the title from the Portuguese dictator was approved by the institution's University Council on August 27. The council stated that the honour is incompatible with the democratic, academic, and constitutional values that currently guide the university. The title had been granted 85 years ago, in 1941, during the Estado Novo regime. The university's decision highlights the authoritarian nature of the Salazar regime, including its repression of academics and colonial policies. This follows similar recent revocations by the university, including those of Jarbas Passarinho and Lincoln Gordon.
In this episode, Lourenço Pereira Coutinho and Margarida Magalhães Ramalho recall the Portuguese World Exhibition which, with unfortunate timing, opened its doors on 23 June 1940, the day after France's surrender to Nazi Germany in Compiègne.
Salazar was, after all, a politician prone to lavish spending and with an eye on real estate speculation. And violence and cabals do not exist on the left: they are an absolute exclusive of the 'far-right'.
In this episode of “History Repeats Itself”, Margarida de Magalhães Ramalho and Lourenço Pereira Coutinho continue their conversation with ambassador Bernardo Futscher Pereira about the foreign policy of the Estado Novo, this time focusing on the years between 1961 and 1974.
For the first time, a high-ranking dignitary of the Portuguese Catholic Church, responsible for the diocese of the country's second-largest city, declared his opposition to the regime.
The descendants of the settlers are gathering this Saturday at a picnic park to evoke the memory. PÚBLICO found a survivor from that time, who does not forget the torments endured.
89 years ago, an attack carried out by a group of anarchists could have changed the history of Portugal. The dictator was miraculously saved from an explosive device that detonated on the opposite side of the target.
90 years ago, in 1936, the Mocidade Portuguesa and the Legião Portuguesa were founded. What were these organisations, what were their objectives, and what was their true importance in the dynamics of the Estado Novo?
