Marcelo Caetano
Portuguese politician (1906-1980) · Portugal · Politicians · Died at 74
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Something wrong?The man who inherited a dictatorship and lost it. Caetano took the reins of Portugal's Estado Novo in 1968 when Salazar could no longer hold them, and six years later the whole apparatus came apart in his hands.
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Marcelo Caetano a votar em 26 de Outubro de 1969, nas eleições para a Assembleia Nacional (Fundação Mário Soares).png?width=1200)
Marcelo Caetano grava um episódio de Conversa em Família (Arquivo A Capital).jpg?width=1200)
Prof. Marcello Caetano, minister-president van Portugal, Bestanddeelnr 921-7402 (cropped)
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Tomada de posse de Marcelo Caetano, 28 de Setembro de 1968 (Arquivo DN)Awards
About this person
Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano was born 17 August 1906, a politician and scholar who spent decades in the apparatus of Portugal's authoritarian state. When António de Oliveira Salazar fell from power in 1968, Caetano became the second dictator of the Estado Novo, stepping into the role of President of the Council of Ministers. He held the position for six years, trying to manage a regime already straining under its own weight. In 1974 the Carnation Revolution swept through Lisbon, and Caetano was overthrown. He died 26 October 1980, the last man to rule the old order before it collapsed.
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