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Venezuelan Municipality Will Annually Celebrate the Carnation Revolution
Chacao, one of the five municipalities of the city of Caracas where a significant number of Portuguese people reside, will annually commemorate April 25, 1974, in homage to the local Portuguese community, the local authorities announced.
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Mundo Venezuela
"We decided to commemorate the anniversary of the Carnation Revolution every April 25 in honor of the Portuguese community in the municipality of Chacao", announced councilman Hilmer Escalona.
The announcement was made on Thursday night during an event in the Plaza de Los Palos Grandes, on the occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of April 25, organized by the Portuguese Institute of Culture and which was held for the first time in a public square in Venezuela, having gathered half a thousand people.
Hilmer Escalona read the reasons that justify the decision, among which is that "the Carnation Revolution or the Day of Freedom in Portugal was an event of historical and political importance for its citizens, with the birth of democracy in Portugal".
"The Portuguese people put an end to the devastating dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar in a non-violent way, through the apparent fragility of a carnation given to each soldier", as well as "by the unstoppable and conscious will to choose freedom and democracy as forms of political life for the progress of humanity, its defense and consolidation", added the councilman.
The revolution "captured the attention of the whole world and remains in the collective memory as a moment of hope and change", stressed Escalona.
The events of April 25, 1974 led to constituent elections and the independence of the colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, "marking the end of Portuguese colonialism in Africa and the beginning of a new era of self-determination and sovereignty for these countries", said the municipality's decision.
"A significant contingent of inhabitants of the Portuguese Republic emigrated to Venezuelan lands from the mid-20th century, becoming deeply rooted in national life, being a constructive element of Venezuela that today continues to take shape with the certainty of its hands, especially in the city of Caracas and prominently in the municipality of Chacao", recalled Escalona.
The Chacao Municipal Council also highlighted the work of the Portuguese Institute of Culture, "a prominent civil organization created and integrated by Portuguese citizens and their descendants with the aim of disseminating, promoting and recognizing through various expressions, the living memory and the Portuguese cultural identity with transcendental values of human heritage".
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