Today, celebrations for the Jubilee of the Carnation Revolution are being organized across Switzerland by the country's third-largest foreign community. Despite the dancing and singing, it takes on a serious and political nature. Because fifty years after the emergence of democracy, the elders see that the values carried by the revolutionaries are fading among the youth.
Swiss-Portuguese historian and author of the book Swiss views on the clove revolutionRito Monico will participate in the four-day celebrations in Renens and Bareilly. “Due to ignorance or lack of interest, many Portuguese will not participate in the celebrations. This saddens me, and I fear that the rise of the far right will erase the legacy of the Carnation Revolution. But it is about occupying the land against those who want to stain memory.”
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