La increíble historia de António Salazar, el dictador que murió dos veces

For forty years, Portugal and its immense colonial empire were led by António Salazar, a man full of contradictions. This brilliant essay covers the peculiarities of the Estado Novo, from the 1930s with Hitler, Franco and Mussolini, to the end of his days in the 1970s, marked by an episode, as fascinating as it was pathetic, from the coup that the dictator received in the head on a visit to the pediatrician. When he was prevented, he orchestrated an impressive staging around her in order to hide from her that it was no longer he who ruled. This included mock cabinet meetings, bogus state visits and, most of all, a media system tailor-made for Salazar, with radio and television interviews and copies of his favorite newspaper just for him. Former seminarian and creator of a subtle system of repression, Salazar escaped World War II by giving bases to the Allies in the Azores and selling material to the Nazis. He set about building tough penitentiaries on remote islands and old medieval fortresses, turning Lisbon into a city full of spies. The corporatist and authoritarian regime that he created was overthrown by the Carnation Revolution, which brought about the return of Portugal to Europe.