Monte Horizonte

he 25 de Abril, or 25th of April 1947, is the day of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution when a coup brought down a dictatorship and led to Portugal’s democracy today. To celebrate in 1974, thousands of people took to the streets, mixing with the military rebellion. This revolution was special for many reasons, but mostly because the revolutionaries did not use violence to achieve their goals. With red carnations in their guns, they brought down the longest standing authoritarian regime in Western Europe. In less than 2 years a new constitution was drafted, censorship ended, free speech declared, political prisoners released, elections held  and the Portuguese overseas territories granted independence.