Aristides Pereira
Aristides Maria Pereira (born November 17, 1923 on Boa Vista , Cape Verde then Guinea-Bissau , † September 22, 2011 in Coimbra , Portugal ) was a politician and from 1975 to 1991 the first President of Cape Verdean.
Career
Pereira's first major government position was as head of telecommunications in Guinea-Bissau . From the late 1940s until Cape Verdean independence, he was involved in the anti-colonial movement, he organized strikes and thus rose in the hierarchy of the African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verdes ( PAICV ).
After the end of the Portuguese colonial empire and Cape Verdean independence, he became the country's first president in 1975. Although Pereira initially promised to lead a democratic and socialist nation if he became president, he exacerbated the country's chronic poverty by fiercely fighting against Cabral's dissidents after the fall of Luís de Almeida . Cabral was President of Guinea-Bissau and his former ally. Nonetheless, Pereira's government recognized human rights far more than most other African countries. After the coup, political reprisals decreased sharply, but the one-party state of the PAICV, established after independence, remained until 1990.
The politics of the country under Pereira's leadership tended towards neutrality during the Cold War and economic reforms helped the rural population in particular. Controversially, he allied himself with the regimes of the People's Republic of China and Libya .
Pedro Pires , President of Cape Verdes from 2001 to 2011, served as Prime Minister during Pereira's reign.
See also
Individual evidence
literature
- Aristides Pereira , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 05/1998 from January 19, 1998, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
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| SURNAME | Pereira, Aristides |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pereira, Aristides Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cape Verdean politician, President Cape Verdes (1975–1991) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boa Vista |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 2011 |
| Place of death | Coimbra , Portugal |