The Daily History Chronicle

On April 25, 1974, a group of exhausted army officers overthrew a fifty-year fascist dictatorship in Portugal and the world called it the Carnation Revolution. But the full story is more complicated, and more urgent, than the famous image of flowers in rifle barrels suggests. Rich explores what really drove the coup, whose suffering made it possible, and why the democracy it created is now fighting for its life fifty years later.