Real-Life Villains

Editing António de Oliveira Salazar

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then publish the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Villain_Infobox
{{Villain_Infobox
|Image = António_de_Oliveira_Salazar.jpg
|Image = Rfa_2588.jpg
|fullname = António de Oliveira Salazar
|fullname = António de Oliveira Salazar
|alias =  
|alias =  
|origin = Vimieiro, Santa Comba Dão, Portugal
|origin = Vimieiro, Santa Comba Dão, Portugal
|occupation = Prime Minister of Portugal (1932 - 1968)
|occupation = Prime Minister of Portugal (1932 - 1968)
|type of villain = Tyrannical Dictator
|type of villain = Dictator
|goals = Maintain the rule of the dictatorship (successful)<br>Supress Communism in Portugal (successful until 1968)
|goals =  
|crimes = [[Censorship]]<br>Oppression<br>[[Authoritarianism]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>[[Misogyny]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>[[Torture]]
|crimes = Censorship<br>Oppression<br>Authoritarianism
|hobby = }}
|hobby = }}
{{Quote|All for the nation, nothing against the nation.|António de Oliveira Salazar}}
{{Quote|All for the nation, nothing against the nation.|António de Oliveira Salazar}}
'''António de Oliveira Salazar''' (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese statesman who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He was responsible for the [[Estado Novo]] ("New State"), the corporatist authoritarian government that ruled Portugal until 1974.
'''António de Oliveira Salazar''' (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese statesman who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He was responsible for the [[Estado Novo]] ("New State"), the corporatist authoritarian government that ruled Portugal until 1974.
==Biography==
Salazar was born in Vimieiro, near Santa Comba Dão (Viseu District), to a family of modest income on 28 April 1889. His father, a small landowner, had started as an agricultural labourer and became the manager for the Perestrelos, a family of rural landowners of the region of Santa Comba Dão who possessed lands and other assets scattered between Viseu and Coimbra.
He was the only male child of two fifth cousins, António de Oliveira (1839–1932) and his wife Maria do Resgate Salazar (1845–1926).His four older sisters were Maria do Resgate Salazar de Oliveira, an elementary school teacher; Elisa Salazar de Oliveira; Maria Leopoldina Salazar de Oliveira; and Laura Salazar de Oliveira, who in 1887 married Abel Pais de Sousa, brother of Mário Pais de Sousa, who served as Salazar's Interior Minister.
Salazar, the son of an estate manager at Santa Comba Dão, was educated at the seminary at Viseu and at the University of Coimbra. He graduated from there in law in 1914 and became a professor specializing in economics at Coimbra. He helped form the Catholic Centre Party in 1921 and was elected to the Cortes (parliament), but he resigned after one session and returned to the university.
In May 1926, after the army had overthrown Portugal’s parliamentary government, Salazar was offered the cabinet post of minister of finance, but he could not obtain his own conditions. In 1928 General António Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, as president, offered him the finance ministry with complete control over the government’s income and expenditures, and this time Salazar accepted. As finance minister, he reversed the century-old tradition of deficits and made budgetary surpluses the hallmark of his regime. The surpluses were invested in a series of development plans.


A trained economist, Salazar entered public life with the support of President Óscar Carmona after the Portuguese ''coup d'état'' of 28 May 1926, initially as finance minister and later as prime minister. Opposed to democracy, communism, socialism, anarchism and liberalism, Salazar's rule was conservative and nationalist in nature. Salazar distanced himself from [[fascism]] and [[Nazi]]sm, which he criticized as a "pagan Caesarism" that recognised neither legal nor moral limits. Salazar promoted Catholicism, but argued that the role of the Church was social, not political, and negotiated the Concordat of 1940. One of the mottos of the Salazar regime was "Deus, Pátria e Família" (meaning "God, Fatherland, and Family").
A trained economist, Salazar entered public life with the support of President Óscar Carmona after the Portuguese ''coup d'état'' of 28 May 1926, initially as finance minister and later as prime minister. Opposed to democracy, communism, socialism, anarchism and liberalism, Salazar's rule was conservative and nationalist in nature. Salazar distanced himself from [[fascism]] and [[Nazi]]sm, which he criticized as a "pagan Caesarism" that recognised neither legal nor moral limits. Salazar promoted Catholicism, but argued that the role of the Church was social, not political, and negotiated the Concordat of 1940. One of the mottos of the Salazar regime was "Deus, Pátria e Família" (meaning "God, Fatherland, and Family").
Line 63: Line 54:
[[Category:Fascist]]
[[Category:Fascist]]
[[Category:Anti-Religious]]
[[Category:Anti-Religious]]
[[Category:Anti-Semitic]]
[[Category:Anti-Semetic]]
[[Category:Islamophobes]]
[[Category:Islamophobes]]
[[Category:Christianity]]
[[Category:Scapegoat]]
Please note that all contributions to Real-Life Villains may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Real-Life Villains:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)

Templates used on this page:

Retrieved from "https://reallifevillains.skywiki.org/wiki/António_de_Oliveira_Salazar"