Arrested and tortured in Lisbon, she subsequently moved to Algeria, from where she helped broadcast programmes of Rádio Voz da Liberdade (Radio Voice of Liberty) to Portugal.

Around the same time, she joined the Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas (National Council of Portuguese Women - CNMP), led by Maria Lamas.

[1][2][3][4][6] On New Year's Eve 1961 about 20 soldiers and civilians, including her husband, stormed the army barracks at Beja in an attack in support of the opposition leader Humberto Delgado, who had returned from Morocco to "seize power".

Following her release on bail, she left the country clandestinely by car, eventually arriving in Paris, to be joined two months later by her husband who had made his way to Morocco.

Moving to Algiers she was the first female announcer of Rádio Voz da Liberdade, which was established in 1963 to broadcast propaganda to Portugal.