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Aristide Menezes

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Aristide Menezes
Born1947 (1947)
Died7 February 1994 (aged 46–47)
NationalityBissau-Guinean
Occupationpolitician
Known forled the Democratic Front
Notable workhelped organize the first public protests after President Joao Bernardo Vieira seized control in 1980

Aristide Menezes (1947 – 7 February 1994) was a political figure in Guinea-Bissau who led the Democratic Front, the first opposition party to be legalized. He died leaving his wife and seven children behind.

Life and career

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Menezes helped organize the first public protests after President Joao Bernardo Vieira seized control in 1980 in a coup against the country's first post-independence government, which had ruled since 1975.

He died after a long illness in Lisbon, Portugal.[1]

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