António de Oliveira Salazar served from 1932 to 1968 as Prime Minister of what country?

António de Oliveira Salazar (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese politician and economist who was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Salazar founded and led the Estado Novo ("New State"), the corporatist authoritarian government that ruled Portugal until 1974.

After the Portuguese coup d'état of 28 May 1926, Salazar entered public life with the support of President Óscar Carmona, initially as finance minister and later as prime minister. Opposed to democracy, communism, socialism, anarchism and liberalism, the ideology of Portugal was conservative and nationalist in nature under his rule. Salazar also promoted Catholicism, but argued that the role of the Church was social, not political, and negotiated the Concordat of 1940. One of the mottos of the Salazar regime was "Deus, Pátria e Familia" (meaning "God, Fatherland, and Family").

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Albeck1994

Christopher Brownbridge, yes is was a bloodless coup, on the 25th April 1974, led by the army and backed by the people, but the flowers were Carnations not Roses. I moved to Portugal a fee years later such a beautiful country

bobw

Colombia is the correct spelling of the country.

Christopher Brownbridge

He may have been officially Prime Minister, but he was in reality Dictator, which was why when the regime finally toppled, people went round putting red flowers in the ends of his guards' rifles. My sister was in Portugal in 1974, taking a Master Class with Segovia, just before this time.