In 1965, a statue of António de Oliveira Salazar was erected at the heart of Santa Comba Dão. This is a pleasant rural town in central Portugal — and the place where Europe’s longest-ruling ...

Portugal in election week was like a nation under siege—and, in a sense, ... Despite increased support from many Portuguese who approve Salazar’s ruthless suppression of the Angola revolt, ...

Salazar has rarely ventured outside Portugal, travels only occasionally even inside the country. Instead he cloistered himself with his books and papers in his high-walled home behind Lisbon’s ...

Salazar’s Portugal regards itself as the object of “aggression,” and in the past two years the Portuguese have taken increasingly to bitter gibes at the West, ...

Despite its long-standing alliance with Britain, Portugal remained officially neutral during World War II, walking a ...

Dr. Simpson will be examining more than 400 letters sent spontaneously to the Portuguese dictator by common citizens in the mid-1960s during the lecture ‘O Povo de Salazar’ (Salazar’s People).

Tens of thousands of people attended the celebrations of the so-called Carnation Revolution, which ended a stifling four-decade dictatorship established by Antonio Salazar. It also paved the way ...

NEW BEDFORD – Infamously known as PIDE, the International and State Defense Police that existed during Portugal’s Estado Novo regime of António de Oliveira Salazar has traditionally been ...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Military vehicles and red carnations return to the streets and squares of downtown Lisbon on Thursday as Portugal reenacts dramatic moments from the army coup that ...

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Military vehicles and red carnations return to the streets and squares of downtown Lisbon on Thursday as Portugal reenacts dramatic moments from the army coup that ...