History of Portugal for Everyone

Hello Dear Readers, First of all I want to thank you all for reading my blog and for enjoying my work. I just want to communicate in this small note, that I go on vacation in December and for that reason during this month I will not write in our Blog But rest assured that in 2018 we will return in great, with renewed strength and new chapters, of our Visit for the History of Portugal.

Picture 1- Catarina Eufémia Born in Baleizão, Beja on February 13, 1928. It was on May 19, 1954 (in the midst of the Salazar dictatorship) at the time of wheat harvest that Catarina and thirteen other reapers complained to the factor of the property where they worked to obtain an increase of two escudos per day. The fourteen women were enough to terrify the foreman who went to Beja to call the owner and the guard. Catarina was chosen by her colleagues to present her claims. To a question from the lieutenant of the guard, Catherine would have replied that they only wanted "work and bread." In response he had a slap that sent her to the floor. When she got up, he said, "Now kill me." The guard lieutenant fired three bullets. Catherine when she was hit by the Guard of the GNR, had in her lap her son who was also injured Hit by 3 bullets Catarina Eufémia, thus dies mother of 2 children, pregnant of the third, died in the prime of the age at the age of 28 ...

Óscar Carmona form Government, after direct suffrage, with a single list, thus becoming President of the Republic, invites in 1928 the Professor of the University of Coimbra António Oliveira Salazar to assume the function of Minister of Finance, succeeding in successfully balancing the public accounts , gaining great prestige in the political / military sphere. As a result of his work, Salazar was appointed President of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister) in 1932, with this appointment the regime stabilized but in counterpart gained an authoritarian and repressive character The Estado Novo became an authoritarian and undemocratic, anticommunist, nationalist, corporatist political system, and the transition to this new regime concludes with the approval of the Constitution of 1933 Picture 1- António Oliveira Salazar New State or Salazarism Regime that was in force in Portugal from the approval of the Constitution of 1933 until the revolution of 25 of April of 1974, t...

Feminist Movement in Portugal for the Emancipation of Women As in the United States and Europe, a movement of intense struggle for a broader range of women's rights emerges in Portugal, in which the names of this movement stand out: Ana de Castro Osório, Adelaide Cabete, Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, Maria Veleda, In 1907 the Portuguese Group of Feminist Studies was created under the direction of Ana de Castro Osório with the aim of spreading the ideals of feminine emancipation and founding a library and publishing articles destined to instruct and educate the Portuguese woman This group was attended by intellectuals, doctors, writers and, above all, teachers, had an ephemeral existence In 1908 the Republican League of Portuguese Women was an organization founded by Ana de Castro Osório and António José de Almeida, supported by the Portuguese Republican Party They defended the right to education, to work, to the administration of goods, the fight against prostitution and child ...

The First Republic began with the approval of the Constitution of 1911 and with the election of the First President of the Republic - Manuel de Arriaga Picture 1- Republic Throughout the First Republic, there were periods of great instability, due to the struggles between the Government and the Catholic Church (since the Republic was Anticlerical, its policy led many convents to close and also enshrined the prohibition of religious education in schools), but there have also been internal disagreements among Republicans, Freemasons, and Carbonaries (these last two are secret organizations), I would remind you that the members of the Republican Government are not those who planned or did the republican revolution of Implantation of the Republic. led to great instability in this new political regime in Portugal. Causes Which lead to the Failure of the First Republic over 16 years • political instability • external dependence - Portugal did not produce enough to import goods a...