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Colonel Luís Macedo, who was part of the group of Army engineers that conceived and organized the 1974 revolution plan, died a victim of covid-19, the president of the April 25 Association, Vasco Lourenço, announced this Sunday.
“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 a relevant relevance in the whole 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 “a notable 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 pointed out that Luís Macedo was “the right hand and the 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 obtaining and organizing the space where the Command Post of the MFA (Movement of the Armed Forces) was installed where the role of Luís 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 ”, said Vasco Lourenço.
In the military operations of April 25, 1974, Luís Macedo was also in the Praça do Comércio giving support to Captain Salgueiro Maia.
“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 retire from his military career and continue to Mozambique.
“His character, his ethics, did not allow him to agree with incompetence, hypocrisy and blind ignorance. The Army lost one of its best, the civilian world won, as in so many other cases. Luís Macedo, let’s not hide it, is an example of a value that Portugal de Abril did not know, did not want to take advantage, out of revenge, with those who had dared to have the courage to advance towards the overthrow of fascism, colonialism and to open the doors to freedom and peace ”, added Vasco Lourenço.
