Aristide Menezes (1947 – 7 February 1994) was a political figure in
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...
who led the
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, the first opposition party to be legalized. He died leaving his wife and seven children behind.
Life and career
Menezes helped organize the first public protests after President
Joao Bernardo Vieira seized control in 1980 in a coup against the country's first post-independence government, which had ruled since 1975.
He died after a long illness in
Lisbon, Portugal.
[Staff report (February 7, 1994)]
Aristide Menezes, Guinea-Bissau Politician, 46.
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References
1947 births
1994 deaths
Bissau-Guinean politicians
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