Portugal: fading memories of fascism?
Constant secret police surveillance, arbitrary arrests and assassinations. Violent repression of political protest. Absence of free trade unions and meaningful elections. Censorship of the press, books, radio and TV. Systematic torture of opponents. Island camps for political dissidents. All features of a right wing regime that was swept away fifty years ago in Portugal in the “Carnation Revolution” . A half a century on, the collective memory of that dictatorship seems to have faded, as many Portuguese cast votes for the far right Chega party in the 10 March parliamentary election. The figure...