The Day of Freedom Has Come!

25th April 1974, Portugal

Araci Almeida
5 min readApr 25, 2022
https://www.ojogo.pt/extra/noticias/a-fotografia-do-25-de-abril-de-2020-12117847.html
Avenida da Liberdade vazia no 25 de Abril de 2020 (José Sena Goulão/Lusa)

Hello, my dear English-speaking friends.

Today is a day of enormous happiness and celebration for all those who defend freedom. I could say, for all Portuguese people, since this date is so dear to us. But some values are transcendent to all humanity, so celebrate this with me, with us.

And you can do this by listening to the following playlist on YouTube. These songs were all about Portuguese counter-culture, which were all banned and directed at the government in a Dictatorship.

Of course, there are still, in this present, old fools who love the gags of a dictatorship more than the critical thinking of freedom. There are young people at tender ages who seem to live in old carcass bodies, who whisper strange winds from the past.

But as long as this day is remembered, as long as the memory of those who lived through it…

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Araci Almeida

Trying to be the next Annie Ernaux but failing it every day