“Spínola willing to drown Portugal in a sea of blood.” The news came from Germany and reached Portuguese newspapers on April 7, 1976, two weeks before the first elections for the Assembly of the Republic. “Pinochet’s candidate” let himself “fall into an almost childish trap and committed the greatest gaffe of his troubled life. He revealed everything: how many men he thought he had, how many weapons, how he would get them inside”, he said. The Diary.
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