Aljustrel: Miguel Carvalho, presents his book “When burned Portugal”.


For the third time, Miguel Carvalho will, in Aljustrel, under the "Meeting with the writing". On 16 June, at 21:30, the journalist goes to the Municipal Library of Aljustrel present his new book "When Portugal Burnt".

In this last work, the journalist uncovers stories and secrets of political violence in the post-April 25, and tries to answer some difficult questions and, within today, polemics: Who were the first fatalities of democracy? Why were murdered Father Max, Rosinda Teixeira and Joaquim Ferreira Torres? Who protected secrets and hid the bomb network far right? He handled the US consul in Oporto the PREC? The reporting daily from the Norwegian shot in the Hot Summer 1975? How does the Church mobilized and blessed the fight against "communism"? What did the PJ on political terrorism and all that never came to trial? Using hundreds of documents, interviews and unpublished testimonies, his journalistic investigation brought to light secret or forgotten stories of the post-April 25. Portugal when burned and was on the verge of civil war.

Miguel Carvalho was born in 1970, no Porto, city ​​with the heart. Great magazine reporter Vision since December 1999, He worked at the Daily News and the weekly The Independent. It has the Radio Journalism course of Port Journalists Training Center. Orlando Gonçalves won the Prize (mode journalism) the Municipality of Amadora (2008) and the Grand Prix Gazette, of the Journalists Club, in 2009.

He is the author of works Toothed in Dog Ear - World Stories with People Inside (Campo das Letras, 2004), Ãlvaro Cunhal - Up close and personal (Campo das Letras, 2006), Here on Earth (Editors derived, 2009). Lúcio Feteira (What's New 2012), A Last Maid Salazar (Book shop 2013).

Has several journalistic and literary texts scattered works and national and foreign publications.


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