Viriato Clemente da Cruz

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Viriato Clemente da Cruz, also well-known as just Viriato da Cruz, was born in 1928 and died in Pequim, China on 13 June 1973. He was considered one of the most important poets of the 1940s and 50s.

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[edit] Politic activity

He studied in Luanda, and in 1957 he went to Paris, where he finds Mario Pinto de Andrade, who expand his knowledge of politics and cultural. In the 1960s he became the secretary-general of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA--from the Portuguese name Movimento Pela Libertação de Angola).

[edit] Exiled in China

He goes to Pequim, in the 1960s, and the leader's Chinese received very well, because he was very instrumental in the creation of the MPLA, first in Conackry, and then in Congo Leopoldville. The Chinese wanted Viriato da Cruz to install the socialism Maoist in the African continent. But they where mistake, and that was a big problem to Viriato and his family. He labours a realtor where he affirms, the country's more advanced doesn’t where prepared to a socialist revolution, and he demonstrate a very courage to refused to change the realtor, that aspect of his character was with very consequences in his short live in politics when the cries of 1962 – 63 in the MPLA. The pessimist realtor, labour by Viriato da Cruz, was on opposition at the Maoist doctrine of the world revolution. The Chinese start to sea of the distance of Viriato, of the Maoist ideas, and he doesn’t understand way the Chinese don’t expulse him in stat of keep him a hostage, but the Chinese fear his superior intelligence and the negative consequences to the Maoist cause, if he left China.

[edit] Last years of life

The last ears of life of Viriato da Cruz were a big dramatise. The felt of food, and the hunger, kill him, and he died in 13 of Jun of 1973. Ming wail the, real humiliation was the form he was carried away in the cemetery of the stranger’s, enclose bitewing four board's, transported in a military van. I think the Angolan people never will be forget the affront of the communist diligent to one of the principal leader's of the liberation of Angola.

[edit] Principal books

Poems (1961). Between his poets texts, detach Namoro, Sô Santo e Makézu.

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