The Conspiracy

The Voice and Ears of MFA

A Noite do Golpe de Estado

April Captains

Se a Memória Existe

Monsanto

Anos de Guerra - Guiné 1963-1974

Portugal 74-75 - O retrato do 25 de Abril

Gestures and Fragments

Good Portuguese People

Oxalá

O Meu Nome É...

Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, GCL (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɔˈtɛlu sɐˈɾajvɐ ðɨ kɐɾˈvaʎu]; 31 August 1936 – 25 July 2021) was a Portuguese military officer who was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution. He later became a terrorist leader. 
After the Revolution, Otelo assumed leadership roles in the first Portuguese Provisional Governments, alongside Vasco Gonçalves and Francisco da Costa Gomes, and as the head of military defense force COPCON. In 1976, Otelo ran in the first Portuguese presidential election, in which he placed second with the base of his support coming from the far-left. Otelo was tried and sentenced for being a leading member of the terrorist group Forças Populares 25 de Abril, which killed 20 people in several terrorist attacks. The Constitutional Court reverted the sentence due to unconstitutionality, as the newly formed body did not agree with the other courts interpretation of the legal code in face of the new constitution, and wanted a full retrial by the same judges.
To solve the impasse, the Portuguese Parliament voted an amnesty for political crimes in 1996 as there was no perspective of juridical solution in "useful time", in adherence to Portugal's statute of limitations. Besides this reasoning, the amnesty was promoted by President Mário Soares as a gesture of democratic reconciliation as it erased the political crimes by far left and far right.
He was further trialled for the assassinations, but was acquitted. The judge in charge claimed that it was certain that the terrorist FP-25 group did the attacks, but not enough admissible proofs indicated the authoring of the crimes for individual convictions. 
Thousands paid respect at his funeral in 2021, including the president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the prime-minister António Costa and the president of the parliament Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues. At the time, the parliament highlighted his role in April 1974 as a "liberator of Portugal".