Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, who has died aged 84, was a disillusioned army captain who became the mastermind behind the coup that sparked Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, so-called because the people placed red carnations in the barrels of the soldiers’ guns. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was a remarkable strategist who paid ruthless attention to military detail. In June, the first such assembly was held at Pontinha, the same barracks from which Otelo had organised the coup. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho in 2017. His father, Saraiva de Carvalho, was a civil servant; his mother, Fernanda Áurea Pegado Romão, was a railway clerk and theatre-lover who named her son after the character from Shakespeare.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2021 18:56 UTC