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    The Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas; MFA) was an organization of lower-ranking officers in the Portuguese Armed Forces...
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    Disponível na www: <URL: http://www.infopedia.pt/$movimento-das-forcas-armadas-(mfa)>. Movimento das Forças Armadas (1974–1975), Projecto CRiPE- Centro de Estudos...
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    as a coup organised by the Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas, MFA), composed of military officers who opposed the regime,...
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    of the conflict. On 25 April 1974, as a general in the MFA (Movimento das Forças Armadas or Armed Forces Movement), he received from the President of...
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  • political party in Côte d'Ivoire Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas), the group responsible for Portugal's Carnation Revolution in...
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    pt/$movimento-das-forcas-armadas-(mfa)>. João Bravo da Matta, A Guerra do Ultramar, O Diabo, 14 October 2008, p. 22 Movimento das Forças Armadas (1974–1975)...
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    rebellion not because of their success in battle, but because of the Movimento das Forças Armadas' coup in Portugal. The MFA was an organisation of lower-ranked...
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    invaded and annexed the territory. In April 1974, the left-wing Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement, MFA) within the Portuguese military mounted...
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    pre-planned part of the national reform program envisioned by the Movimento das Forças Armadas (Movement of the Armed Forces; MFA), which aimed to exercise...
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    Abandoning its moderate-reformist posture, the revolutionaries of the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA) leadership set out on a course of sweeping nationalizations...
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    when the 25 April revolution of 1974 took place. He joined the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA or Armed Forces Movement) and after returning to Portugal...
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    discontent and disillusionment within the Armed Forces. When the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA) seized control of the government in Lisbon on 25 April...
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    assembly and allow work on the constitution to go forward. The Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA, English: Armed Forces Movement) and leftist groups pressured...
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  • by the Assembly of the Armed Forces Movement (Assembleia do Movimento das Forças Armadas) with the goal of achieving the objectives of that movement's...
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    April 2016. "Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA)". Infopédia (in Portuguese). Maltez, José Adelino (3 May 2007). "Movimento das Forçaas Armadas". Centro de...
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    Africa. A leftist military coup in Lisbon on 24 April 1974 by the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA), overthrew the Estado Novo regime headed by Prime Minister...
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    of lands in the region. In Pontinha, the command post of the Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement) was responsible for assisting the establishment...
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    military coup organized by the Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas, MFA) composed of military officers who opposed the Portuguese...
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  • Portuguese Armed Forces, led by Melo Antunes, who participated in the Movimento das Forças Armadas that brought about the Carnation Revolution. The progressive...
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    the coup was organised by the left-wing Armed Forces Movement (Movimento das Forças Armadas), the core of which "took shape" first among military officers...
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  • Portuguese soldier and politician. Alves, a former Captain of the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA), is regarded as a leading figure in the Carnation Revolution...
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    The Portuguese Armed Forces (Portuguese: Forças Armadas) are the military of Portugal. They include the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the other unified...
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    result of the work of a group of young officers unified under the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA). Within this group, there were several different political...
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  • Politics portal Bicesse Accords Lusaka Accord Lusaka Protocol Movimento das Forças Armadas Armed Forces Movement Nakuru Agreement Portuguese Colonial War...
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    Disponível na www: URL: http://www.infopedia.pt/$movimento-das-forcas-armadas-(mfa). Movimento das Forças Armadas (1974–1975), Projecto CRiPE- Centro de Estudos...
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    broadcast on the Lisbon radio station Rádio Renascença. The Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA), a group of Portuguese military officers led by recently...
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  • belonging to an underground organization, the Armed Forces Movement (Movimento das Forças Armadas – MFA), overthrew the Caetano regime, and Spínola emerged as...
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    abandoning its moderate-reformist, pro-democracy posture, the Movimento das Forças Armadas leadership set out on a course of sweeping nationalizations and...
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  • designed by Júlio Pomar. On 25 April 1974, the command post for the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA) was established in Pontinha. In the aftermath of the Carnation...
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  • Batista, Dias Antunes, and Sarmento Beires. April 25, 1974: The Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement) overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship...
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