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  Station Information - Aristides Pereira
Aristides Maria Pereira (1924-present) was the Marxist president of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991.
Pereira's first major government job was chief of telecommunications in Guinea-Bissau.
From the late 1940s until Cape Verde's independence, Pereira was heavily involved in the anti-colonial movement, organizing strikes and rising through the hierarchy of his party, the Partido Africano da Independencia da Guiné e Cabo Verde.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Aristides Pereira
Pereira, Aristides, born in 1923, first president of Cape Verde (1975-1991).
Born on Boa Vista Island, Cape Verde, Pereira was one of the founders of...
Pereira, city in western Colombia, capital of Risaralda Department, on the Otún River, in the western foothills of the Cordillera Central, near...
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 Aristides (racehorse)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Aristides is the horse that won the very first Kentucky Derby in 1875.
Aristides was set to be the pace setter for the other horses with Chesepeake stalking and coming from behind when the other horses tired.
Aristides came in second at the Belmont Stakes, the race that today is the third race in the triple crown of American thoroughbred horse racing.
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 aristides
In pursuance of a conservative policy which aimed at maintaining Athens as a land power, he was one of the chief opponents of the naval policy of Themistocles.
The conflict between the two leaders ended in the ostracism of Aristides, at a date variously given between 485 and 482.
In the Battle of Salamis he gave loyal support to Themistocles, and crowned the victory by landing Athenian infantry on the island of Psyttaleia and annihilating the Persian garrison stationed there.
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 Aristides Pereira   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Aristides Maria Pereira (1924 -present) was the Marxist president of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991.
From the late 1940s until Cape Verde's independence,Pereira was heavily involved in the anti-colonial movement, organizing strikes and rising through the hierarchy of his party, the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, knownas PAICV).
The country's policies during Pereira's rule tended toward Cold War nonalignment and economic reforms to help the peasantry.He controversially allied his country with the regimes in China and Libya.
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 Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was born on July 9, 1885, in the village of Cabanas de Viriato in the scenic northern province of Beira Alta, Portugal.
Aristides and his identical twin, Cesar, were raised with strong values centered on the family's ancestral traditions and profound Catholicism.
Aristides and Angelina had opened their home to as many of the neediest as the walls could hold.
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Pereira, Aristides (1923- ), Cape Verdean politician, President of Cape Verde (1975-1991).
Born in Cape Verde, Pereira was one of the founders of the...
Like other Portuguese possessions in Africa, the islands were designated an overseas province rather than a colony, in 1951.
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Some of the expeditions of Nun'Álvares Pereira were based at Estr...
Brazilian literature -> The Twentieth Century In 1902 Euclides da Cunha wrote his masterly description of an uprising in the Brazilian northeast, Os sertões (tr.
Canaan (1902), a pessimistic novel of ideas by José Pereira da Graça Aranha, appeared in the same year, and the children's literature of José Bento Monteiro Lobato also...
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 Cape Verde
In 1975 a national people's assembly was elected, and Aristides Pereira, PAIGC secretary general, became president and head of government of Cape Verde.
The 1980 constitution provided for the union of the two states but in 1981 this aspect was deleted because of insufficient support, and the PAIGC became the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV).
Pereira was re-elected, and relations with Guinea-Bissau improved.
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 Aristides Pereira   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Aristides Maria Pereira (1924-present) era el presidente de Cabo Verde a partir de 1975 a 1991.
Aunque Pereira prometido inicialmente para conducir una nación democrática y socialista sobre presidente que se convertía, él compuso la pobreza crónica del país machacando la disensión que seguía el derrocamiento de Luís de Almeida Cabral.
Pereira perdió elecciones democráticas en 1991 a António Mascarenhas Monteiro.
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Plans for unity came to an abrupt end in 1980 after Guinea-Bissau's government (which was mostly Cape Verdean) was overthrown in a coup.
In 1981, the PAIGC was renamed the PAICV (African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde), a new constitution was adopted, and Arístides Maria Pereira (Cape Verde's first president) was reelected.
In 1983, Cape Verde normalized relations with Guinea-Bissau, and in 1986 Pereira was unanimously reelected.
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After a 1980 coup in Guinea-Bissau, Pereira abandoned his plans to unify Cape Verde with that country.
His party was renamed the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV) in 1981, and he won a second term as president in 1986.
Pereira resigned as party secretary-general (a post he had held since 1973) in 1990, shortly before popular demands for greater democracy led the government to abandon the PAICV's constitutional monopoly on power.
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 Pereira News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Charles Pereira, who died December 19 aged 91, pioneered the study of the science of the water relations of crops in tropical and temperate regions.
Ramon Pereira's cross from the left was met by Kevin McKenna but the Canadian was left holding his head in anguish as he volleyed wide from seven yards.
Olga Pereira, a retired executive in her mid-50s, arrived by a British Airways flight at 1 am and was making her way home when a Santro blocked the path of her...
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 ARISTIDES
His estate seems to have suffered severely from the Persian invasions, for apparently he did not leave enough money to is defray the expenses of his burial, and it is known that his descendants even in the 4th century received state pensions.
Amilcar Cabral was assassinated in Conakry in 1973, and party leadership fell to Aristides Pereira, who later became the first president of the Republic of Cape Verde.
At year's end, marine Colonel Jose Ancizar Molano Padilla (then-commander of the 2nd Marine Infantry Battalion) as well as marine Corporals Javier Fernando Guerrero, Eduardo Aristides Alvarez, and Jose Milton Caicedo were standing trial in a civilian court in Pasto for the 1995 social cleansing killings of alleged thieves Sifredy and Fredy Arboleda.
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 Cape Verde - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
On Jan. 13, 1991 the country's first national multiparty election resulted in the defeat of the ruling African Party for the independence of Cape Verde (PAIC) by the Movement for Democracy (MPD) led by Carlos Veiga.
Pereira was defeated in presidential elections by Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro who was sworn in as President on Mar. 22, 1991.
On Dec. 15, 1991 the country's local multiparty elections were held with the ruling MPD winning 10 out of the 14 councils while the PAIC won three.
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 Filmmaker's focus is Cape Verde - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Mass. - News
Claire Andrade-Watkins remembers the first time she filmed the president of Cape Verde on a visit here, when Aristides Pereira visited for the first time in 1983.
At the time, the film history professor at Emerson College recalled, she was not hopeful for the future of the Cape Verdean community in New England.
This time, she was invited to tea and brunch with Prime Minister Jose Maria Pereira Neves at the Hampton Inn in Boston during his first visit to the United States, to thank the federal Millennium Challenge Corporation for its planned investment of $110 million over five years in his country.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/17/filmmakers_focus_is_cape_verde   (534 words)

  
 Maltez > Medicina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Aristides Pereira Maltez nasceu em 31 de agosto de 1882; era o oitavo dos dez filhos de FRANCELINO PEREIRA MALTEZ (de origem africana) e de AMÉLIA DA GLÓRIA GUIMARÃES MALTEZ (origem portuguesa).
Aristides era professor de latim, grego, química, médico cirurgião, professor de Ginecologia, poliglota e espírita.
Carlos Aristides Maltez, filho de Aristides, foi eleito Presidente do Hospital Aristides Maltez em 25/01/52, aos 24 anos de idade e continuou a obra de seu pai até os anos oitenta, quando o Hospital passou a ser gerenciado por Aristides Maltez Filho, irmão mais jovem de Carlos.
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 History of GUINEA-BISSAU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Portuguese Guinea and the Cape Verde islands become separately independent, in 1974 and 1975, as the republics of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
The original intention on both sides is to merge the new states, but Cape Verde changes its view after Luis Cabral is ousted in a coup in Guinea-Bissau in 1980.
Pereira changes the name of his party from PAIGV to PAICV (Partido Africano da Independencia da Cabo Verde).
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 History of Cape Verde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The MpD won a majority of the seats in the National Assembly, and the MpD presidential candidate Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro defeated the PAICV's candidate by 73.5% of the votes cast to 26.5%.
He succeeded the country's first president, who had served since 1975, Aristides Pereira.
Legislative elections in December 1995 increased the MpD majority in the National Assembly.
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 Amorcriolo.......Nos cultura e nos riqueza
Aristides Pereira, who took the lead of PAIGC after the assassination of Amilcar Cabral on January 20, 1973, became the first President of Cape Verde and Pedro Pires the first Prime Minister
Cape Verde was ruled by the African Party for the independence of Cape Verde (PAIGC/PAICV) between 1975 and 1991.
1849 In the opinion of governor Joao Pereira de Melo, it was essential to move the government seat, from July to February, out of Praia to a healthier place.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Aristides Pereira
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On July 5,1975 after a long fight for the national liberation, the country obtained its National Independence.
Aristides Pereira became the country’s first President and Pedro Pires, the first Prime Minister.
The African Party for the independence of Cape Verde (PAICV) governed Cabo Verde from 1975 until January 13, 1991, when they finally settled upon the multi-party system with all the institutions of modern democracy.
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In the direct popular vote for the separate Presidential elections in February 1991, the CEN announced 72 percent of the votes for António Mascarenhas Monteiro and 26.2 percent for Aristides Pereira.
It appears that the current President Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro will run unopposed as he is supported by both the PAICV and the MpD as a defender of democracy and human rights.
The 1991 defeat of former President Aristides Pereira of the PAICV was a great shock that this party does not wish to repeat.
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 SABCnews.com - africa/southern_africa
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) was graced this morning by the presence of eight former African heads of state at Gallagher Estates, in Midrand.
The presidents, namely Nicephore Soglo (Benin), Ketumile Masire (Botswana), Aristides Pereira (Cape Verde), Jerry Rawlings (Ghana), Danial Arap Moi (Kenya), Karl Ossman (Mauritius), Ali Hassan Mwinyi (Tanzania), and Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia), made a brief appearance at PAP.
Masire addressed the PAP on behalf of his colleagues, saying he was very impressed with the formation of this parliament.
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 A short history of Cape Verde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
After a long liberation war (in Guinea Bissau) and the revolution in Portugal in 1975 the Cape Verde Islands become independent as the Republic of Cape Verde.
The Partido Africano da Independência de Guiné e Cabo Verde (African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, PAIGC) takes - as it does in Guinea Bissau - power and establishes a one-party state under president Aristides Maria Pereira.
After a coup in Guinea Bissau, the PAIGC splits in 1981 in a Guinean and a Capeverdian party.
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 Cape Verde Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At the turn of the 1990s, the Government followed the continental trend and held elections in February 1991.
The PAICV faced the challenge of the Movimento para Democracia (MPD) which duly won both the legislature and the race for the Presidency in which their candidate, ex-supreme court judge Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, defeated the incumbent Aristides Pereira.
The MPD held onto both presidency and national assembly in 1995 but lost both to the PAICV at the most recent elections in early 2001.
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 <<TOC1>> The Courier - N°158 - July - August 1996 Dossier Communication and the media - Country report ...
His brother, Luiz Cabral, was to become president of Guinea-Bissau, and Aristides Pereira his successor as Party leader and Cape Verde's first president.
The desire for change was too great and the position adopted by the Catholic church, anxious to punish a party which had dared to opt for a referendum on abortion, did the rest.
President Aristides Pereira's personal prestige stood for little in the full face of this onslaught.
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 History of Cape Verde Islands - Portuguese Genealogy and Heritage
Armed resistance began against the colonial army and demonstrations were held.
In 1973, Aristides Pereira became the first President of Cape Verde.
The fall of the Caetano regime in Portugal soon after paved the way for Cape Verde's independence.
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 CHARLES BRAY's Cape Verd Journal
In 1975, after five centuries of Portuguese rule, Cape Verde obtained its independence.
Its first president was Aristides Pereira, head of the African Party for the independence of Cape Verde, the only political party allowed in the new state.
In 1990, however, the single party system was abolished; and in the following year, Pereira became the first African president ever to be voted out of office.
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 BU | APARC | Summit
The issue is will Africa ever benefit from its contribution to the global economy as much as the world benefits from Africa.
Former President Masire was joined by Nicéphore D. Soglo of Benin; Pierre Buyoya of Burundi; António Mascarenhas Monteiro of Cape Verde; Aristides Maria Pereira of Cape Verde; Flt.
Please contact APARC at (617) 353-5452 or aparc@bu.edu for a copy of the Communiqué that documents the African Presidential Roundtable 2005.
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