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Colonel Luís Macedo, who was part of the group of army engineers that conceived and organized the 1974 revolutionary plan, died a victim of covid-19, the president of the April 25 Association, Vasco Lourenço, announced today.
It is with immense regret and enormous pain that we report the death of our founding partner, Colonel Luís Ernesto Albuquerque Ferreira de Macedo, after a long and hard fight against covid-19. Luís Macedo was one of the main captains of April, with relevance throughout the process of April 25 “said Vasco Lourenço.
In a statement, the president of the Associação 25 de Abril pointed out that Luís Macedo was part of “an outstanding group of Army engineers, who would distinguish themselves in the collective of the Captains Movement, the driving force and fundamental agent of the liberation of Portugal and the Portuguese “.
Colonel Vasco Lourenço later noted that Luís Macedo was “the right hand and main support” of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho.
If in the conception of the order of operations it was of enormous importance, it would be in the obtaining and organization of the space where the Command Post of the MFA (Movement of the Armed Forces) was installed where the role of Luis Macedo was decisive. It was he who, in his unit, RE1, organized, prepared and coordinated from the Pontinha post, where Otelo [Saraiva de Carvalho] and his team directed all operations “Vasco Lourenço highlighted.
In the military operations of April 25, 1974, Luís Macedo was still in the Praça do Comércio giving support to Captain Salgueiro Maia, asking for support, going to the Praça do Comércio.
“In the struggle for the consolidation of April, Luís Macedo joined the Council of the Revolution (which belonged to the Coordinator of the Captains Movement) between March and September 1975. I remember him as an important element, with all his strength and Youth , at the service of the Portuguese Revolution, ”wrote the president of the April 25 Association.
Vasco Lourenço, however, regretted that Luís Macedo was later “one of the victims of the marginalization and persecution that the political-military structure subtly promoted to the April captains,” which led him to withdraw from the military career and move on. . Mozambique.
“His character, his ethics, did not allow him to compromise with incompetence, hypocrisy and blind ignorance. The Army lost one of its best, the civilian world won, as in so many other cases. Luis Macedo, we do not hide it, it is An example of a value that Portugal de Abril did not know, it did not want to take advantage, out of revenge, with those who had dared to have the courage to move towards the overthrow of fascism, colonialism and the opening of doors to freedom and peace. “Vasco Lourenço added.
