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Duarte Pacheco (politician)
Duarte José Pacheco (19 April 1900 — 16 November 1943) was a Portuguese engineer, minister of public works and mayor of Lisbon who made major improvements to the civil infrastructure of Portugal as a minister of the ''Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo'' regime. He is considered to be one of the most notable Portuguese politicians of the 20th century. Early life Pacheco was born in Loulé in the Algarve region of Portugal. He was one of the youngest of four sons and seven daughters of José de Azevedo Pacheco, Police Commissioner of Loulé, and his wife Maria do Carmo Pontes Bota. His mother, from a rich family from Loulé, died in 1906, and the following year his father was transferred to Horta, Azores, Horta on Faial Island in the Azores, leaving the family in the Algarve, under the care of the eldest sister, Sofia. He would return to the Algarve but die in 1914. Duarte Pacheco was born on 19 April 1900 but, as a result of a bureaucratic error, his birth certificate recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António De Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar (, , ; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the regime as the ("New State"), a corporatist dictatorship that ruled Portugal from 1933 until 1974. Salazar was a political economy professor at University of Coimbra. Salazar entered public life as finance minister with the support of President Óscar Carmona after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état. The military of 1926 saw themselves as the guardians of the nation in the wake of the instability and perceived failure of the First Republic, but they had no clue how to address the critical challenges of the hour. Within one year, armed with special powers, Salazar balanced the budget and stabilized Portugal's currency. Salazar produced the first of many budgetary surpluses. He promoted civilian administration in the authoritarian regime when the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
