Manuel Soares Monge is a

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military and political figure. He is a general in the Portuguese army. He was born in

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18 February 1938, in

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. During the colonial war he made four tours of duty in Africa: two in

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, the last two in

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. In 1968, he was appointed commander in chief of Portuguese Guinea. He was then a Portuguese army major and one of the faithful of

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, who was one of the important people of the Carnation Revolution which occurred on 25 April 1974. He was a member of the Movimento dos Capitães and Comissão Coordenadora do MFA and military advisor to the President and given responsibility for relations with

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. He was civil governor of the

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until 2011.Alentejo Magazine

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