In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.
Marcello José das Neves Alves Caetano was a Portuguese politician and scholar. He was the last prime minister of the Estado Novo regime in Portugal from 1968 to 1974, when he was overthrown during the Carnation Revolution.