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On April 25th, 1974. a radical faction within the Portuguese Armed Forces, the MFA, revolted against the government.
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Portugal was the most underdeveloped country in Europe. At the time 400,000 people were unemployed.150,000 people lived in shanty towns, one million had emigrated and infant mortality was nearly 8.5%.
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The carnation revolution was initially a military coup in Lisbon, Portugal, on 25 of April 1974 which overthrew the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo
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People began occupying empty property, unwilling to wait for government action, the government, afraid of people's anger, decreed a rent freeze an allocated money and tax exemption to builders that were working