Azores Liberation Front

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The Azores Liberation Front, more commonly known as FLA (Portuguese: Frente de Libertação dos Açores) was a right-wing paramilitary organisation with independentist goals that appeared in the Azores, right after the Carnation Revolution.

The organisation (which, according to some sources, was backed by the CIA) became very popular in the first months after the Revolution. As the Communists accumulated more and more power, fear of Portugal becoming a Soviet puppet started to grow. Besides, the PREC (with its nationalisation policies) became very unpopular among Azorean farmers and industrialists, who organised themselves to resist the "red danger".

Even though the organisation gained widespread support for some time, it was virtually dead by the end of the 70's. Autonomy was granted to the Azores in 1976, cooling the explosive situation, and the communist threat was slowly eroding.