Una sinergia Noviolenta. Militares y civiles portugueses durante el 25 de abril de 1974

Abstract

On April 25th, 1974, the Carnation Revolution would take place in the streets of Lisbon ending the dictatorship of the Estado Novo. Tired of the bloody colonial war and the immobility of the regime, the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) would end up planning and executing a coup with democratic intentions. During the hours in which the coup took place, the civilian population of the Portuguese capital disobeyed the order of the insurgent soldiers to stay in their homes and invaded the streets declaring their support for the MFA. Both groups joined forces in pursuit of a peaceful political transition to democracy through the use of civil resistance and a democratic coup. Throughout this article we have studied this union of forces, this nonviolent synergy that brought down the longest-running dictatorship in Europe, trying to give another point of view to traditional analyzes to understand how both merged in a peaceful way.