Muere Celeste Caeiro, the woman who promoted the use of the clavine in the 1974 revolution

Celeste Caeirola camarera que consiguió transformar el clavel como ve un symbolo revolucionario en Portugal He died this Friday in 1974 At the age of 91 in the neighborhood of Leiriasegún ha confirmed on social networks that her niece Carolina Caeiro Fontela.

“Por siempre, mi abuela Celeste. Cuídame,” ha Caeiro Fontela posted on his profile on the X social network, in a statement to the Portuguese news agency. Lusa ha confirmed that she was an old woman He was suffering from respiratory problems y ha lamentado que nunca se le hubiera hecho un homenaje en vida.

Indeed, during the celebrations dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Revolution of the Keys last April 25, Caeiro Fontela reivindicó el papel de su abuela la artífice de que esta flor in antonomasia en el país should be known as el symbol. “Hay mucha gente que todavía thinka que fue una florista (la que le dio un clavel a un soldado), but mi abuela no era florista“, aseveró hace meses la nieta de Caeiro en declaraciones a la citada agency Portuguesa, recallando que su abuela trabajaba como camarera en Lisbon.

On the 25th of 1974 Caeiro avtoservisio stabajaba in the cerrado, but can be used to close the customers and the interior decoration of the restaurant. Walking down the street with a branch, he was a member of the Movimiento de las Fuerzas Armadas. he asked for a cigarette.

Caeiro, who never smokes due to lung diseases, could not give the cigars that the soldiers asked him to, but le regaló un clavel. The soldier picked up the flower and placed it in the barrel of his rifle, a gesture that was later repeated by his comrades, eventually turning it into a rifle. A symbol of the Portuguese revolution.