If LUAR – League of Unity and Revolutionary Action – had been a foreign movement, it is entirely possible that its troubled existence in the last period of the dictatorship would have already given rise to a film or even a Netflix series. Yet the historian Luís Vaz has already dedicated several books to him, the most recent of which (A Luar – From the Covilhã operation to its extinctionÂncora edition) will be launched this Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Fundação Mário Soares in Lisbon, with a presentation by João Soares.
Let’s go back in time a little, to the now distant year of 1967, when California declared the Summer of Love, but Portugal was stranded in the grip of Salazarism and a three-front war in Africa. On May 17, 1967, an opposition brigade led by Hermínio da Palma Inácio robbed the branch of the Banco de Portugal in Figueira da Foz, embezzling about 29,000 accounts. Once the attack was completed, the attackers took a small plane to Cernache airfield and managed to escape.
Source: DN
