Miguel Cardina

To Talk or Not to Talk: Silence, Torture, and Politics in the Portuguese Dictatorship of Estado Novo

Abstract This article is based on the author’s wider research into Maoism in Portugal from 1964 to 1974 during the final years of the Estado Novo (New State) dictatorship. It analyzes the so-called “issue of conduct,” that is, the “correct” behavior of militants under arrest and torture. The aim is to reveal how this subject—heavily defined by the dualism of “talking” / “not talking”—has endured in time and to emphasize how, through this dualism, connections can be established between torture, silence, and memory.

As inundações de 1967 na região de Lisboa: uma catástrofe com diferentes leituras

On the nights of 25 and 26 November 1967, heavy rains swept over the area of Lisbon (Lisboa, Loures, Odivelas, Vila Franca de Xira and Alenquer), with flooding causing a high number of deaths, thousands of homeless and countless homes destroyed. Despite the impacts originated the episode remains poorly evoked. The theoretical and academic approaches to the subject have focused more on the weather phenomenon and the effects produced in the territory and less on the social consequences and the observation of the impacts of a political nature. Based on consultation and analysis of hundreds of documentary sources, we have tried to document some social and political events that marked the post-flood crisis in 1967 in the Lisbon region.