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Wilson Filipe, also known as Sabu el Marinero, one of the main figures linked to the occupation of Herdade da Torre Bela in 1975, died on Thursday, December 24 in Azambuja, where he lived, a source close to the family informed Lusa. .
Wilson Filipe, 72, felt ill and was still rushed to the hospital. Funeral ceremonies, said the same source, should be held on Monday or Tuesday.
Occupied on April 23, 1975 by various workers from Azambuja, Herdade da Torre Bela became known for not having partisan intervention, having created a popular and non-communist cooperative, as usual.
Until April 25, Portuguese agriculture was not valued at a political or economic level, being integrated into the Ministry of Economy as Secretary of State, a situation that on April 25 came to change, with the creation not only of the Ministry of Agriculture, but also from the Agrarian Reform Institute.
Under the slogan “the land for those who work it”, the agrarian reform of the democratization period began with various land occupations throughout the country, led by popular movements and strongly supported by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), due to the aggravation unemployment.
Idealized by General Vasco Gonçalves, the agrarian reform (made official by the law of April 15, 1975) takes place in a politically turbulent context. Vasco Gonçalves, a member of the MFA’s political commission, was prime minister from the second to the fifth provisional government. As prime minister, he was a mentor of land reform and nationalized the main private means of production such as banking, insurance and public transport, for example.
The agrarian reform was one of the most important and also most controversial measures of Vasco Gonçalves, and he himself considered the constitution of cooperatives and the distribution of land as a “difficult measure”. The argument of the then prime minister, who died in 2005, was that it was necessary to lift the people out of hunger and misery, at a time when the gap between rich and poor was very wide.
Wilson Filipe, recounts a 2007 article by Daily News, was born in Manique do Intendente and was linked to a film about the occupation of Torre Bela, by the filmmaker José Filipe Costa. The director’s work is mainly focused on another film, Bela Tower, by the German Thomas Harlan, document prepared in 1977, two years after the occupation of the estate.
Herdade da Torre Bela has been involved in a controversy in the last week due to a saddle that resulted in the death of 540 animals.
