Alfredo Cunha: The photojournalist who defined Portugal's Carnation Revolution
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Fifty years after the Carnation Revolution, Cunha's photographs continue to immortalise the military coup that changed the course..
The Carnation Revolution, also known as the 25 April, was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo Revolucionário Em Curso. It resulted in the Portuguese transition to democracy and the end of the Portuguese Colonial War.
Fifty years after the Carnation Revolution, Cunha's photographs continue to immortalise the military coup that changed the course..