Great event Friday at the Embassy of Portugal for Dr. Paul Manuel’s book on the Portuguese revolution, Voices of the Revolution. From the introduction: “On April 25, 1974, Portugal’s armed forces in a pronunciamento rapidly overthrew Portugal’s dictatorship, a 48-year-old regime. Known as the Estado Novo (New State), it was founded after a military coup and lasted from 1926 to 1974, twentieth-century Western Europe’s longest surviving dictatorship.” This is essential, relevant history.