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April 25. Reliving the 48 hours of the coup in Pontinha
The Lusa agency brought together, twice, the men who, from a "barracks" in the Pontinha barracks, on the outskirts of Lisbon, led the 25th of April, the coup that overthrew the longest dictatorship in Europe.
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First, in the 20th anniversary, in 1994, and on the initiative of two journalists from Lusa, Rui Cabral and Luís Pinheiro de Almeida, authors of a magazine published by the agency about the captains' coup, the six military men joined together.
Never had Sanches Osório, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Fisher Lopes Pires, Vítor Crespo, Hugo dos Santos and Garcia dos Santos come together again since 1974 and much less so in the "barracks" of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) Command Post.
In a long conversation, they recalled the 48 hours of tension until the regime fell, but also some funny episodes -- the movement forgot to arrest the deposed President of the Republic, Américo Thomaz.
The text with the six military men was published in a magazine published by Lusa "25 de Abril -- Memórias" which also included an interview with Marshal António de Spínola.
"I hold Marcello Caetano fully responsible for all the excesses of the Revolution", said Spínola at the time, who criticized the head of government who was deposed on 25 April 1974 for not taking into account "the appeals for peace" he had made in the book "Portugal e o Futuro".
"At this moment I hold Professor Marcello Caetano fully responsible for all the excesses verified during and after the Revolution, which, in my opinion, could have been avoided", he said.
Then, in 2014, Lusa brought together again the military men from Pontinha, now without two of them, who had died in the meantime, Fisher Lopes and Hugo dos Santos.
The memories were, once again, recounted by the four men in the space which, at that time, was already a museum space where each of them was represented in full-size, uniformed wax figures.
From that conversation came the news that the MFA had a plan B, in case the coup of 25 April had failed.
"The B plans resulted in this: the Azores and Guinea. The guys were prepared to seize and arrest the senior officials there, announce to the Government that they were under arrest and [demand] that the Government resign", declared Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the strategist of 25 April.
Today Lusa re-edits the film of the events from the reunion, in 2014, of the six military men from the Command Post, updating it with new elements not published at the time.
From the original group, and after the death of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Vítor Crespo, Garcia dos Santos and Sanches Osório are still alive.
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