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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 this Thursday in Azambuja, where he lived, a source close to the family told Lusa.
Wilson Filipe, 72, felt ill and was still rushed to the hospital, but without success.
Funeral ceremonies, said the same source, should be held on Monday or Tuesday.
The popular leader of the occupation was also part of the story in a scene from the documentary about the farm occupied in ’75 in which he explains the logic of agricultural cooperatives to a farmer. “All this belongs to the cooperative, it is not yours, it is not mine, it belongs to the cooperative!” He said to the irreducible who complained: “Those who do not have a tool keep mine that belongs to the group? ”.
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 has changed, with the creation not only of the Ministry of Agriculture but also of the Agrarian Reform Institute.
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Wilson Faustino Filipe, the popular “leader” of the occupation, on the hoe scene and currently :). pic.twitter.com/WNSyCfMKPw
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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, tells a 2007 article in Diário de Notícias, was born in Manique do Intendente and was linked to a film about the occupation of Torre Bela, the work of the filmmaker José Filipe Costa.
The director’s work is mainly focused on another film, “Torre Bela”, by the German Thomas Harlan, a document made in 1977, two years after the occupation of the estate.
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