COUNTER-COUP IN LOURENÇO MARQUES: SEPTEMBER 1974

The International Journal of African Historical Studies | September 1, 2006| | Copyright

The long established rightwing dictatorship in Portugal was overthrown by a military coup led by General António de Spinola on 25 April 1974. One of the chief objectives of the so-called Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement) was to extricate the country from the wars of independence in its African colonies, which had absorbed more than a third of Portugal's total budget in the period 1961-1974 and were rapidly escalating in cost.1 Faced with the prospect of being abandoned by the home government and handed over to black nationalist rule, some of the 100,000 European settlers ...

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