Interview with Pedro Pires, former President of the Republic of Cape Verde and President of the Amílcar Cabral Foundation
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https://doi.org/10.53943/ELCV.0225_178-189Abstract
To mark and honor the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Cape Verde, which occurred on July 5, 1975, we had the privilege of interviewing one of its foremost protagonists and a true Father of the Cape Verdean Nation, President Pedro Pires, born in 1934 on the island of Fogo: leader of the national liberation struggle during the anti-colonial war alongside Amílcar Cabral and Aristides Pereira; head of the PAIGC delegation in negotiations with the Portuguese authorities following the Carnation Revolution; Prime Minister from 1975 to 1991; and, finally, President of the Republic from 2001 to 2011. With him, we revisited pivotal moments in the recent history of what is today—thanks to the struggles of the peoples of the former colonies and to the Carnation Revolution—a sister republic of Portugal. President Pedro Pires is currently President of the Amílcar Cabral Foundation, which in 2024 celebrated the centenary of the birth of this central figure in anti-colonial thought and struggle.
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