Lisbon pays tribute to the foreign journalists who recounted the Carnation Revolution

Lisbon, April 16 (EFE).- On April 25, 1974, foreign correspondents in Portugal told one of the country's most beautiful stories, the Carnation Revolution: a work to which tribute has been paid since this Tuesday in Lisbon, with occasion of the 50 years of the end of the dictatorship.

CAMERA: SUSANA SAMHAN.

STATEMENTS BY PEDRO MARQUES GOMES, EXHIBITION COMMISSIONER AND HISTORIAN (IN PORTUGUESE): It shows on the one hand the reality of people in various parts of the country, realities of various points of the Algarve to the north of the country, how were the experiences of workers to more relaxed moments that we find this in the 70s. Lippmann's photographs are from a little before the revolution, and then we accompany it with the winds of revolution, to use the title of the exhibition, through the photographs of Peter Collins..

STATEMENTS BY FÁTIMA LOPES CARDOSO, CURATOR OF THE EXHIBITION (IN PORTUGUESE): Ingeborg Lippmann and Peter Collins were already living in Portugal , as correspondents for The New York Times and The Times newspaper. They stayed in Portugal and they knew the Portuguese reality, unlike many other foreign correspondents who came, they knew the ins and outs. And I think, according to my research, they had a great sympathy and admiration for the Portuguese culture, for the Portuguese people's way of being. Lippmann said that Portuguese women were strong because they resisted many things, war, with husbands and children. So I think they played an essential role, perhaps more than the correspondents, because they knew the culture.