1965. Lisbon. The PIDE, Soares, three women and a dictator.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 | Articles
When I arrived in the sleepy, romantic city of Lisbon in 1965, at the age of 23, for my first foreign assignment, I never thought that one day the national airport would be named after the assassinated opposition leader (Humberto Delgado) and that a small-time defense lawyer named Mario Soares (later premier and president of Portugal) would take me to the scene of the crime.
Click here to read the full story published in Italian within the book “Pieces of History. From the Armistice to the Coronavirus. 48 events. 42 witnesses. Facts and Characters in the Tale of Agency Journalists” for Hoepli, edited by Cesare Protetti and Stefano Polli.