For all its possessions, Portugal is a patriarchy and Salazar is its patriarch. Liberty and its inevitable corollary, duty, still have for him the meaning they had for Abraham and Isaac.

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 ...

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, ...

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 marks the assassination of Gen Humberto Delgado, but was he murdered by secret police on the orders of the dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar?

Salazar, who determined Portugal’s path for much of the 20th century, wasn’t on it. Though school texts portray the dictatorship in cool, academic terms, the Portuguese remain uneasy with a ...

In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 9 2015, a statue of Antonio Salazar, a Portuguese dictator in colonial times, faces a wall in a courtyard of the national library in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique.