Dylan Silva

Dylan Silva is a major in History with a European specialization. He will be presenting his project that focuses on 1960s Portugal, titled “A Nation in Motion & Its Forgotten Motives: Exploring Dimensions that led to the Fall of Salazar’s Dictatorship in 1960s Portugal,” in which he will discuss three dimensions that contributed to the uprising known as the Carnation Revolution of April 25th, 1974. These dimensions are: (1) The state of the Estado Novo (New State) throughout the 1960s, (2) the secret police known as the PIDE, and (3) the War for Independence in Portuguese Guinea.