José Eduardo de Figueiredo ARAÚJO ®

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• Nota biográfica:,. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
José Eduardo de Figueiredo Araújo , also known under the name Cachupa , (* 1933 in Praia , Portuguese Cape Verde , † January 20, 1992 ibid) was a Cape Verdean resistance fighter and later a politician of the PAIGC or PAICV .

Life
José Araújo was born in Cape Verde in 1933, where he was able to attend secondary school due to the privileged status of his family. After a stay in Luanda, where he met his future wife Amélia, he studied law at the University of Lisbon in the early 1950s . As part of his studies, he also visited the Casa dos Estudantes do Império , a student house founded by the Portuguese regime in order to better involve students, especially from the African "overseas territories". In the 1950s, the house developed into a nucleus of the resistance against Portuguese colonialism. There he met numerous other Afro-Portuguese students, became politicized, and joined the resistance. His future wife Amélia arrived in Lisbon in 1960, the two married in the Portuguese capital, their daughter Teresa was born in February 1961. After completing his studies, the Araújo family fled to Ghana in 1961 via Bonn, Zurich and Casablanca, in order not to be discovered by the regime.

A little later, in 1963, José Araújo joined the resistance and moved to Conakry ( Guinea-Conakry ) to join the armed resistance of the PAIGC resistance and independence movement based there. Due to his education and his knowledge, Araújo rose relatively quickly in the PAIGC hierarchy and took on various offices. Among other things, he was political commissioner, head of information and a member of the Combat Executive Council ( Comité Executivo da Luta ) responsible for production. His wife, meanwhile, devoted herself to the radio station Rádio Libertação, founded by the PAIGC in 1965 .

In the course of the assassination of the PAIGC leader Amílcar Cabral , Araújo was kidnapped together with other PAIGC officials such as Aristides Pereira and Vasco Cabral , and taken to a ship in international waters. However, a Soviet combat ship prevented the further kidnapping, Soviet soldiers freed the resistance fighters and brought them back to Guinea-Conakry.

As part of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24, 1973, Araújo became one of the most important state officials in the country and stayed with his wife in Guinea-Bissau. Among other things, he was a member of the delegation led by Pedro Pires to lead negotiations on the independence of Cape Verde with the Portuguese interim government. Cape Verde declared its independence on July 5, 1975.

In November 1980, long-time PAIGC commander and war veteran João Bernardo Vieira launched a coup against the PAIGC government under Luís Cabral, which was mainly led by Cape Verdeans . The coup led to the separation of the mainland Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verdean archipelago. Araújo moved to Cape Verde with his wife, founded the new PAICV party together with him and took over the office of education and culture minister.

Araújo died of a heart attack on January 20, 1992.

• Associação ou club: sócio nº 98 da Casa dos Estudantes do Império, admitido, a 1 Set 1953, em Lisboa, , Lisboa, Portugal. ² Entre outros dados patentes na ficha, constam:

ESTADO CIVIL: Solteiro

PROFISSÃO: Estudante de Direito

Secretário do Conselho Fiscal em 1956/57; Presidente da A.G. em 1957-1958

• Atividade política: membro do Comité Central do PAIGC, em Guiné-Bissau>. Citação:
(s.d.), "Lista de dirigentes políticos e responsáveis militares do PAIGC", Fundação Mário Soares / DAC - Documentos Amílcar Cabral, Disponível HTTP: http://hdl.handle.net/11002/fms_dc_41937 (2024-2-24)
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• Atividade política: Ministro da Educação, antes de 1990, em Cabo Verde. De um dos Governos da 1ª República (1975-1990)

Fonte: Relação nominal dos Ministros e Secretários de Estado (1975-2008), que constitui o anexo 5 da TESE apresentada em 2012 por Crisanto Avelino Sanches de Barros, para obtenção do Título de Doutor em Ciências Políticas e Sociais.

• Foi sepultado em Cemitério da Várzea.

• Sepultura/Campa.