Cabral and the PAIGC also set up a trade-and-barter bazaar system that moved around the country and made staple goods available to the countryside at prices lower than that of colonial store owners.

With the coming of independence, the PAIGC moved swiftly to extend its control throughout the country.

Despite the presence of Portuguese troops, which grew to more than 35, 000, the PAIGC steadily expanded its influence until, by 1968, it controlled most of the country.

In 1980 PAIGC admitted in its newspaper " Nó Pintcha " ( dated 29 November 1980 ) that many were executed and buried in unmarked collective graves in the woods of Cumerá, Portogole and Mansabá.

After the military coup, in 1980 PAIGC admitted in its official newspaper " Nó Pintcha " ( dated November 29, 1980 ) that many were executed and buried in unmarked collective graves in the woods of Cumerá, Portogole and Mansabá.

In 1961, the MPLA joined the PAIGC, its fraternal party in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde, in direct combat against the Portuguese empire in Africa.

For the first time, the party took an official position on colonialism, stating that every people had the right of self-determination, and made clear its support of the liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies, such as MPLA in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique, and PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau.

After the military coup, in 1980 PAIGC admitted in its official newspaper Nó Pintcha ( dated November 29, 1980 ) that many were executed and buried in unmarked collective graves in the woods of Cumerá, Portogole and Mansabá.

Later, Super Mama Djambo both supported the PAIGC and mocked its perceived nepotism and corruption.

The PAIGC reached an agreement with the PRS for its legislative support ( a previous attempt at reaching a deal with the United Social Democratic Party, which won 17 seats, failed ), and in May the new parliament was sworn in, with PAIGC leader Carlos Gomes Júnior becoming prime minister.

In January 1973, a crushing blow was dealt to the PAIGC: its leader, Amílcar Cabral, was assassinated, not by the Portuguese, but rather by a disgruntled former associate.

The PAIGC won the third highest number of seats in the Nov 1999 parliamentary election, and its presidential candidate, Malam Bacai Sanhá, was defeated by Yala.

PAIGC withdrew its backing for Kabi on February 29, 2008, saying that this was done " to avoid acts of indiscipline threatening cohesion and unity in the party ".

His old party, the PAIGC, backed former interim president Malam Bacai Sanhá as its candidate.

In 1956, its forerunner, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ), was founded by the Cape Verdean nationalist leader Amílcar Cabral.

PAIGC fought to overthrow the Portuguese Empire, unify Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, and of use its vanguardism to advance socialist revolution.

From 1961 on, the PAIGC fought a guerrilla warfare campaign in cooperation with its fraternal party umbrella group, the CONCP, during the Portuguese Colonial War.

In 1965 the war spread to the eastern part of the country ; that same year the PAIGC expanded its attacks in the northern area of the country, where at the time only the Front for the Liberation and Independence of Guinea ( FLING ), a minor insurgent force, was operating.

In order to maintain the economy in the liberated territories, the PAIGC was impelled an early stage to establish its own administrative and governmental bureaucracy, which organized agricultural production, educated farmworkers on protecting crops from destruction from government attacks, and opened armazens do povo ( people's stores ) to supply urgently needed tools and supplies in exchange for agricultural produce.

General Spínola instituted a series of civil and military reforms, intended to first contain, then roll back the PAIGC and its control of much of the rural portion of Portuguese Guinea.

Nonetheless, the PAIGC continued to increase its strength, and began to heavily press Portuguese defense forces.

In 1970, conflict between Portuguese forces and the PAIGC in neighbouring Portuguese Guinea ( now Guinea-Bissau ) spilled into the Republic of Guinea when a group of 350 Portuguese troops and Guinean dissidents landed near Conakry, attacked the city, and freed 26 Portuguese prisoners of war held by the PAIGC before retreating, failing to overthrow the government or kill the PAIGC leadership.

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.

Spínola's tenure as governor marked a turning point in the war: Portugal began to win battles, and in a Portuguese invasion of Guinea, 1970 raid on Conakry, in the neighbouring Republic of Guinea, 400 amphibious troops attacked the city and freed 26 Portuguese prisoners of war kept there by the PAIGC.

The operation involved a daring raid on Conakry, a PAIGC safe haven, in which 400 Portuguese Fuzileiros ( amphibious assault troops ) attacked the city.

Following independence in 1975, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) established a one party political system.

Among other goals, the Portuguese military wanted to kill or capture Sekou Toure due his support of the PAIGC, a guerilla movement operating inside Portuguese Guinea.

In 1956, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) was organized clandestinely by Amílcar Cabral and Rafael Barbosa.

In Guinea-Bissau in 1989, the ruling African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) under the direction of President João Bernardo " Nino " Vieira began to outline a political liberalization program which the People's National Assembly approved in 1991.

The conflict in Portuguese Guinea involving the PAIGC guerrillas and the Portuguese Army was the most intense and damaging of all Portuguese Colonial War.

The village of Madina do Boé in the southeasternmost area of the territory, close to the border with neighbouring Guinea, was the location where PAIGC guerrillas declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24, 1973.

Although the nationalist movement appeared less fervent in Cape Verde than in Portugal's other African holdings, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC, acronym for the Portuguese Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde ) was founded in 1956 by Amílcar Cabral and other pan-Africanists, and many Cape Verdeans fought for independence in Guinea-Bissau.

After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC, in 1973, the capital of the de facto independent territories was declared to be Madina do Boe, but Bissau remained as the capital of the Portuguese-occupied regions, and the de jure capital of the entire Portuguese Guinea.

From the late 1940s until Cape Verde's independence, Pereira was heavily involved in the anti-colonial movement, organizing strikes and rising through the hierarchy of his party, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, known as PAIGC ).

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.

In the early 1960s, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) launched an anti-colonial guerrilla war against the Portuguese authorities.

The former ruling party, the African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ), won the largest number of seats ( 45 ) but did not win a majority.

Born to a farming family in Bula, Cacheu Region on 15 March 1953, Ialá became a militant member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) during his teenage years.

In 1963, at the age of 16, Correia Seabra joined the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) as a guerilla fighting against Portuguese colonial rule.

He has been the President of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) since 2002 and is widely known as " Cadogo ".

He was the campaign manager for the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) during the March 2004 parliamentary election, in which PAIGC won a plurality of seats ; following the election, he became Minister of External Affairs on May 12, 2004, as part of the government of the new Prime Minister, Carlos Gomes Júnior.