Background
Luiz was born on September 1929, at Bafata, the country’s second largest town, of Euro-African parents who came from Cape Verde.
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Luiz Cabral
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He was educated locally. Instead of going to Lisbon University like his brother he went straight into the Uniao Fabril, the giant Portuguese company, as a clerk.
Career
He went straight into the Uniao Fabril, the giant Portuguese company, as a clerk. His contacts with leading workers at the docks produced the first stirrings of militant unionism with demands for higher wages. He became their tactical adviser during the strike but was taken aback by the violent outcome. Tipped off that the police were about to swoop on him, he slipped over the border to exile in Conakry in 1960.
On February 17, 1964, he was appointed one of seven members of the executive committee set up at a conference in the bush to reorganise the party structure. In 1967 he was given more responsibility in party organisation when greater streamlining of the party structure was carried out. In August 1965 he went to Cuba with a party delegation seeking support from the Castro government. He has been active at OAU meetings and although less of a theorist than his brother has established a reputation as a vigorous pragmatic nationalist.
Personality
One of the six pioneers who launched the liberation movement in September 1956. Younger brother and always in the shadow of the philosopher-founder of the PAIGC Amilcar Cabral, who was assassinated at Conakry on January 20, 1973.A tough nationalist, closely linked to the trade unions.
He was the militant organiser of the dock strike at Pidgiguiti which led to a clash on August 3, 1959, when police killed 50 Africans and wounded 180. In exile since 1960, he has been a leading member of the seven-strong executive committee undertaking special missions abroad to places such as Cairo and Havana for support.
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Nationality
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Political Party
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
Career
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February, 1973