Background
Santos, Jose Eduardo dos was born on August 28, 1942 in Luanda, Angola. Son of Eduardo Avelino and Jacinta Jose Paulino.
Santos, Jose Eduardo dos was born on August 28, 1942 in Luanda, Angola. Son of Eduardo Avelino and Jacinta Jose Paulino.
Graduate, Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow, 1969. Graduate in petroleum engineering, Baku Institute Petroleum and Gas, 1969.
Joined Movimiento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA), 1961. President Republic of Angola, Luanda, since 1979. Went into exile, 1961.
Founder, vice president Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola Youth, Leopoldville, Congo (now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo). Returned to Angola and participated in war against Portuguese, 1970-1973. Member central committee, 2nd political bureau Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, since 1974, then chairman, coordinator foreign relations department, 1975-1979, secretary central committee education, culture and sport, then secretary national reconstruction, secretary economic development and planning, 1977-1979.
Minister planning, president National Planning Commission, 1978-1980.
Married Ana Paula dos Santos, 2 children.