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Portugal was ruled by a right-wing dictatorship up until 1974. And the man who was instrumental in its overthrow has died at the age of 84.

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was the chief strategist of a bloodless coup that brought about the transition to democracy in Portugal but also the end of Portugal's colonial wars which would lead to independence for territories such as Angola and Mozambique.

Raquel Varela, professor of political history at the New University of Lisbon and the author of A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution, told Newshour's Julian Marshall more about the officer-turned-politician popularly known as Otelo.

(Picture shows Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho on 22 April 2014. Credit: European Pressphoto Agency)