- The
Comando Operacional do
Continente (
COPCON, English:
Operational Command of the Continent) was a
military command for
Portugal created by the Armed...
- 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...
- the
moderados (moderates). On the 26th, the CR
decided to
dissolve the
COPCON, and
demanded the
presence of all its
commanders in the Belém Palace. During...
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- the
Continental Operations Command (Comando
Operacional do
Continente –
COPCON)
composed of 5,000
elite troops with
Major (later
Brigadier General) Otelo...
-
leadership began its
efforts to
dominate the nation,
which summed up with the
COPCON (a post-revolutionary
military organisation founded in 1974) and the constant...
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Forces Movement and the
Revolutionary Council were
starting to show. When
COPCON commander,
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho,
withdrew his
support from Gonçalves...
- em Fafe era
atacado à granada.
Otelo Saraiva de
Carvalho (que
chefiava a
COPCON), em 14 de Junho,
ainda fala em
mandar os
fascistas para o
Campo Pequeno...
- May 1975, and both were
arrested by
Comando Operacional do
Continente (
COPCON), the
military organization led by
Otelo Saraiva de
Carvalho that controlled...
- de Carvalho, Portugal's
former military security minister as
director of
COPCON, was
arrested in
Lisbon on
charges of
conspiracy to
overthrow the government...
