‘The political prisons of the Estado Novo’
Thursday April 24, 11am, Tavira Municipal Library
Tuesday April 29, 6 pm, Lagoa Municipal Library
Although many Portuguese reminisce with longing over the stability and golden days of the Salazar era, the government of the period of 1926-1974 in Portugal was of course a military dictatorship, sustained by force and by a secret police.
This military dictatorship lasted longer than the other and more famous dictatorships of contemporary Europe.
These aspects of the Estado Novo are of course not well appreciated by the estrangeiros (expats) who live now in the Algarve, many of them in retirement.
What do we know of the repressive nature of the regime? Of the people who were imprisoned by the regime? Of the prisons in which they were held?
Peter Booker investigates the secret police, their prisons and their victims, and attempts to explain the successful longevity of the Estado Novo.
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