Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
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Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho (mural in Portugal)
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| Nickname(s) | Otelo |
| Born |
31 August 1936 Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique |
| Allegiance |
 Portugal
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| Service/branch |
 Portuguese Army
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| Years of service | 1955–1984 |
| Rank | Brigadier |
| Battles/wars | Carnation Revolution |
| Awards | Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty |
| Other work | Candidate to President of Portugal |
Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, GCL (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɔˈtɛlu sɐˈɾajvɐ dɨ kɐɾˈvaʎu]; born 31 August 1936), is a retired Portuguese military officer. He was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon.
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was born in Lourenço Marques, Portuguese Mozambique (now Maputo, Mozambique), of Luso-Goan (Portuguese India) ancestry. Named by his theater-minded parents after Shakespeare's Othello, he had his secondary education at a state school in Lourenço Marques. His father was a civil servant and his mother a railway clerk. He entered the Military Academy in Lisbon at the age of nineteen.
Carvalho spent many years in the colonial wars in Africa. He served in Portuguese Angola from 1961 to 1963 as a second lieutenant, and as a captain from 1965 to 1967. He was posted to Portuguese Guinea in 1970 as a captain, under General António de Spínola, in charge of civilian affairs and propaganda ('Hearts and Minds').
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