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António Agostinho Neto (17 September 1922 – 10 September 1979) was an Angolan communist politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, having led the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the war for independence (1961–1974).
In 2016, Neto published Cartas de Maria Eugénia Neto a Agostinho Neto (Letters from Maria Eugénia to Agostinho Neto ), [49] and in 2021, she launched three books Em cabo verde nasceu um menino chamava-se Agostinho Neto (In Cape Verde a Boy was Born Called Agostinho Neto), Fica aí dentro do quarto soldado sou eu (I'm Inside the Soldier's Room ...
Agostinho Neto obtained the position when his People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola won control of the country from the Portuguese. When Neto died in 1979, José Eduardo dos Santos succeeded him. Under Dos Santos' leadership, Angola became a multi-party state, although it remained controlled by him.
On 11 November 1975, Agostinho Neto, the leader of the MPLA, declared Angola's independence as the People's Republic of Angola a one-party Marxist-Leninist state. [2] In response, UNITA declared Angolan independence as the Social Democratic Republic of Angola in Huambo, while the FNLA declared the Democratic Republic of Angola based in Ambriz.
TAAG Angola Airlines plans to move their hub progressively to Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport until the end of the first quarter of 2025. [14] The first passenger flight connection at the airport was launched on 10 November 2024. [15] By 18 December 2024, an average of 4 flight departures per day was recorded. [16]
Dos Santos held several positions including Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of independent Angola's first president, Agostinho Neto. After Neto's death in 1979, dos Santos was elected by the MPLA as the country's new president, supported by the Soviet Union and inheriting a civil war against Western-backed anti-communist rebels ...
Maria Ruth Neto was born in 1936 in Luanda in Portuguese Angola, [1] as the younger sister of Agostinho Neto, who would become the first president of independent Angola. [2] Their father, Agostinho Pedro Neto, was a Methodist minister, who worked at an American mission in Luanda, [3] [4] and their mother, Maria da Silva, was a school teacher.
Ruth Manuela Pflüger Rosenberg Lara (17 September 1936 – 25 October 2000) was a Portuguese-Angolan educator, mathematician, translator, and activist. She was the First Lady of Angola briefly, after her husband, physicist-mathematician, anti-colonial revolutionary, and politician Lúcio Lara, took office for 9 days on an interim basis after the death of Agostinho Neto.