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Portuguese coup celebrations marked by political fireworks: 20th anniversary rally provides a platform for economic dissent, writes Phil Davison in Lisbon
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IT SOUNDED like another coup d'etat and much noisier than its
famous predecessor. Twenty-five minutes into yesterday, explosions
erupted around Lisbon, 20 years to the second after the start of the
revolution that ended nearly half a century of dictatorship. The
bangs, however, were only from celebratory fireworks.
In a re-enactment of 25 April 1974, an armoured vehicle, with the
name Bula painted up front, rumbled on to the Largo do Parmo in
Lisbon's old town, and pointed its gun turret towards a police
barracks. It was the same vehicle that did so 20 years ago, commanded
by Major Fernando ...
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