The Diplomat
The Council of Ministers yesterday agreed to declassify a series of documents related to the Portuguese Revolution, which will be fifty years old tomorrow, the 25th.
The reference of the Council of Ministers does not reveal any information about the content of these documents and merely states that they are those relating to 26 and 28 April and 31 May 1974, that is, dates after the so-called Carnation Revolution took place in the neighbouring country, which put an end to the dictatorship initiated by Oliveira Salazar and continued by Marcelo Caetano.
Nor has the Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided The Diplomat with any information on the content of these documents, some of which could be communications with the Spanish Embassy in Lisbon.
At the time of the Revolution, the ambassador was Emilio de Navasqüés, a man of great confidence in the Franco regime. Four days after the events of 25 April, Spain recognised the Junta of National Salvation set up in Portugal and, in June, sent a new ambassador to Lisbon – Antonio Poch – who was considered a moderate liberal.
