Africa-Press – Angola. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the MPLA expressed, this Tuesday, “deep resignation” at the death of General Paulo Pfluger Barreto Lara, which took place today, in the City of Porto, Portugal, due to illness, at the age of 65.
In a statement, the MPLA Political Bureau, states that involved body and soul in the cause of Angolan nationalism through the inseparable walk with his father, the late nationalist Lúcio Lara, General Paulo Lara has an impeccable record of services rendered to the Nation. Angolan, standing out in Organs military bodies where he began his career in 1972, in the province of Cabinda, as a guerrilla of the MPLA, having fulfilled the missions and functions with an exemplary sense of discipline and organization.
“Former MPLA pioneer and founding member of the Tchiweka Documentation Association, the fearless and respected General PAULO LARA also stood out for his research on the period of the Armed Struggle for National Liberation and as mentor and director of the “Trilhos da Independence”, which aimed to collect and preserve relevant documents from the memory of the period of Angola’s history and the struggle of all peoples under colonial occupation”, reads the document.
With a degree in Military Sciences and International Relations, as a retired from the Angolan Armed Forces, General PAULO LARA dedicated himself to Teaching, having integrated the Advanced Center for African Studies at the Agostinho Neto University.
The Political Bureau of the MPLA Central Committee also considers that the death of General Paulo Lara represents the loss of one of the most brilliant sons of Angola, who dedicated the best years of his life to her, as well as the disappearance of an illustrious intellectual concerned with the preservation of the collective memory of the Angolan people.
“In this moment of pain and great consternation, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, on behalf of the militants, friends and sympathizers of the MPLA, bows before the memory of comrade Paulo Lara, and addresses his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family”, he concludes. the statement sent today.
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