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4 unusual facts about April Captains


April Captains

Spinola himself arrives, places Gervasio in local command (despite having spent almost the entire day avoiding any action) and orders Maia to convey the arrested Caetano, Correira and the other leaders to an air force base, from whence they are flown to Madeira and then on to exile in Brazil.

Late and depressed, Rosa then travels by tram to Antonia's flat to babysit for her daughter Amelia.

Marcelo Caetano

According to the film April Captains (Capitães de Abril), Caetano, prior to boarding the plane that would take him to exile, thanked his captors for treating him well and wished them the best of luck with the country.

PIDE

The brutality of the PIDE/DGS is dramatised in the 2000 film April Captains (about the events of the day of the Carnation Revolution).



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