Luís Cabral, Amílcar Cabral's half-brother, became President of Guinea-Bissau.

Luís Cabral, Amílcar Cabral's half-brother, became President of Guinea-Bissau.

As his brother Amílcar Cabral had been assassinated in 1973, Luís Cabral became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau after independence was granted on September 10, 1974.

Already as the President of Guinea-Bissau, Luís Cabral tried to impose a planned economy in the country, and supported a socialist model that left the economy of Guinea-Bissau itself ruined.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

* Cabral, Luís M. B., 2000.

The Church of Santa Engrácia, in Lisbon, Portugal, turned into a National Pantheon since 1966, holds six cenotaphs, namely to Luís de Camões, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Afonso de Albuquerque, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Vasco da Gama and Henry the Navigator.

Although Pereira initially promised to lead a democratic and socialist nation upon becoming President, he compounded the country's chronic poverty by crushing dissent following the overthrow of Luís de Almeida Cabral.

Luís Severino de Almeida Cabral ( 11 April 1931 – 30 May 2009 ) was the first President of Guinea-Bissau.

Luís Cabral was a half-brother of Amílcar Cabral, with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) in 1956.

Luís Cabral was born in the city of Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, on April 11, 1931.

Luís Cabral's rise to leadership began in 1973, after the assassination in Conakry, Guinea, of his half-brother Amílcar Cabral, the noted Pan-African intellectual and founder of the PAIGC.

The Guinea-Bissau branch of the party, however, followed Luís Cabral.

Luís Cabral became President of Guinea-Bissau.

Some sections of the party accused Luís Cabral and the other members with Cape Verdean origins of dominating the party.

Luís Cabral was then arrested and detained for 13 months.

Already as the President of Guinea-Bissau, Luís Cabral tried to impose a planned economy in the country, and supported a socialist model that left the economy of Guinea-Bissau itself ruined.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied it, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

br: Luís Cabral

de: Luís Cabral

es: Luís Cabral

fr: Luís Cabral

This return was made possible through a series of negotiations which involved several Nationalist military officers in Madrid, F. José Luís Almenar Betancourt S. J., a Jesuit who was in contact him during his stay in Bolivia, and the Bishop of Cochabamba, a former military chaplain who had served under Rojo.

Exactly eleven days later he accepted a position as Full Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão in São Luís, state of Maranhão, where he became responsible for creating the Department of Biology ; and, for a short period ( 1987 – 1988 ) served also as Dean of the University.

The city is served by Luís Alberto Lehr Airport.

In 1860, Capelo sailed to Angola, in southwest Africa, and served on board the D Estefânia, which was commanded by Prince Luís, staying for three years at a naval station before returning to Lisbon in 1863.

* January 12 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by the Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, who had previously taken the city of São Luís in Maranhão from the French.

A few minutes from time, he spectacularly spilled a free-kick which Luís Figo recovered, heading over the bar although unchallenged.

Unfortunately, word arrived from San Diego at the same time that a group of natives attacked the mission and brutally murdered one of the missionaries ( Father Luís Jayme ).

By 1455, the Venezian navigator, Luís de Cadamosto, on visiting Madeira, referred to the excellence of the Madeirense wines, principally the Malvasia castes from the island of Crete, which were being exported in greater numbers.

Under the presidency of João Goulart ( 1961 – 64 ), a protégé of Getúlio Vargas, and another gaúcho from Rio Grande do Sul, the closeness of the government to the historically disenfranchised working class and peasantry and even to the Communist Party under none other than Luís Carlos Prestes was equally remarkable.

By a series of successful expeditions, he gradually extended the Dutch possessions from Sergipe on the south to São Luís de Maranhão in the north.

A sermon entitled Gods Arithmeticke ( 1597 ), and two translations from the Spanish of Luís de Granada entitled Granada's Devotion and the Sinners ' Guide ( 1598 ) complete Meres ' list of works.

In 1614 the French were again expelled from São Luís by the Portuguese.

They especially favoured an elaborate and quintessenced kind of colloquial and literary expression, imitated from Giambattista Marini and Luís de Góngora y Argote, then fashionable throughout Europe.

French colonists tried to settle in present-day Rio de Janeiro, from 1555 to 1567, the so-called France Antarctique episode, and in present-day São Luís, from 1612 to 1614 the so-called France Équinoxiale.

By a series of successful expeditions, he gradually extended the Dutch possessions from Sergipe on the south to São Luís de Maranhão in the north.

In a series of expeditions, he gradually expanded from Sergipe on the south to São Luís de Maranhão in the north.

By a series of successful expeditions, he gradually extended the Dutch possessions from Sergipe on the south to São Luís de Maranhão in the north.

The humanist Juan Luís Vives was brought from Italy to teach Latin, and the reader in theology was instructed to follow the Greek and Latin Fathers rather than the scholastic commentaries.

Of importance, there was a Jesuit Catechism from 1618, with a second edition from 1686 ; another grammar written in 1687 by another Jesuit priest, Luís Figueira ; an anonymous dictionary ( again published by the Jesuits ) from 1795 ; a dictionary published by Antônio Gonçalves Dias, a well-known 19th Century Brazilian poet and scholar, in 1858 ; and a chrestomathy published by Dr. Ernesto Ferreira França in 1859.

The groups continued to oppose Pinochet's government from exile, and helped inspire nueva canción singers from Uruguay ( Daniel Viglietti ), El Salvador ( Yolocamba l ' ta ), Mexico ( Amparo Ochoa ) and Nicaragua ( Carlos and Luís Enrique Mejía Godoy ), as well as Cuban nueva trova artists like Pablo Milanés.

The city of São Luís experiences a tropical monsoon climate with a short dry season ( Koppen Am ) from August to November.

With the clown's large success in Brazil, two more actors, Luís Ricardo and Arlindo Barreto, were hired to play Bozo for additional shows which ran from mornings to afternoons and more comedians were chosen to play Bozo in other parts of the country.

The nine delegates which attended the founding Congress of the PC-SBIC were Abílio de Nequete, a Lebanese Brazilian barber ; Astrojildo Pereira, a journalist from Rio de Janeiro ; Cristiano Cordeiro, an accountant from Recife ; Hermogênio da Silva Fernandes, an electrician from Cruzeiro ; João da Costa Pimenta, a linotype operator ; Joaquim Barbosa, a tailor from Rio de Janeiro ; José Elias da Silva, a shoemaker from Rio de Janeiro ; Luís Peres, a broom seller from Rio de Janeiro ; and Manuel Cendón, a Spanish-born tailor.