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"It limped on until the mid-1970s, when
junior army officers, sickened by colonial war, toppled the ruling dictatorship, opening the
way for democracy at home" Only important to me because my grandfather fought in the Colonial War in Angola, due to conscription imposed by the brutal dictator Antonio Salazar.

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"However, he warns against turning the memorial into “an ideological statement” that
exacerbates divisions."

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Division

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"history risks being hijacked by politics."

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“'This is
part of a political strategy ... the far-left in Portugal is stirring this up.'"

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political

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“ 'The idea that Lisbon was the capital of the slave trade is a complete lie,' he said. "

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"Slavery casts a shadow over what Portuguese history portrays as a golden age..."

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debate

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“'I don’t want us to head towards a settling of scores with ourselves. I want people to understand what happened and why it happened and I want people to see this is the time to ensure that everybody has equal opportunities,' Amaral said. 'This is not the moment to judge history, it’s the moment to understand history.'" (pg. 9)

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Reality

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"'This is not the moment to judge history, it’s the moment to understand history.'" (pg. 9)

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“This is not the moment to
judge history, it’s the moment to understand history."

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History

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“I don’t want us to head towards a settling of scores with ourselves. I want people to
understand what happened and why it happened and I want people to see this is the time to
ensure that everybody has equal opportunities,”

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“The idea that Lisbon was the capital of the slave trade is a complete lie,” he said. “This is
part of a political strategy ... the far-left in Portugal is stirring this up. They are putting this
on the political agenda.”

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“People really got behind the project, there was a recognition that something like this is
needed,”

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Slavery