Vasco Gonçalves
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General Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves OA (Lisbon 3 May 1921 – 11 June 2005) was a Portuguese army officer in the Engineering Corps who took part in the Carnation Revolution and later served as the 104th Prime Minister from 18 July 1974 to 19 September 1975.
Early life
Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves was born on 3 May 1921, in Sintra, Portugal. His father, Vítor Gonçalves, was an amateur footballer turned foreign exchange dealer. He graduated from the Portuguese military academy as an engineer in 1942. Gonçalves married, in 1950, Aida Rocha Afonso, with whom he had a son, Vitor, and a daughter, Maria João.
In 1942, Gonçalves graduated from a Portuguese military academy in the Army Engineering Corps. As an officer, Gonçalves served in Portuguese Goa, and spent part of his military career in the Portuguese overseas territories of Angola and Mozambique.
In 1973, Gonçalves joined the Armed Forces Movement and was involved in the planning of the overthrow of the Estado Novo regime.
Later life
After his tenure as Prime Minister, Gonçalves retired from politics and would occasionally attend rallies in support of movements from the left. His last public appearance was in 2004 at an event with Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Durão Barroso.
While remaining independent throughout his life, Gonçalves identified as a Marxist.
Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves died on 11 June 2005 at the age of 84 after drowning in his brother's swimming pool due to cardiac complications.
Political career
Gonçalves' tenure as Portugal's Prime Minister was marred by political turmoil and instability. The Prime Minister oversaw the conversion of Portugal into a republic called the Processo Revolucionário Em Curso, or the Ongoing Revolutionary Process.
Gonçalves' leadership was jeopardized early in 1975 by a right-wing coup attempt that ultimately failed. The Prime Minister, emboldened by this, went on to nationalize all Portuguese-owned capital in the banking, insurance, fertilizer, cement, and wood pulp industries, as well as the Portuguese iron and steel company, major breweries, large shipping lines, and retail outlets in the glass, mining, fishing, and agricultural industries.
The Socialist Party and its allies gained a majority in the provisional constituent assembly in 1975, they defamated Gonçalves, who they accused of left-wing insurgentism, and began a series of protests against Gonçalves' government. Gonçalves' vehemently condemned his political rivals on August 18th. President Francisco da Costa Gomes dismissed Gonçalves two weeks later, amid increasing threats of civil war.
The demise of Gonçalves was met with skepticism from the Portuguese Workers' Communist Party, which organized mass protests in Lisbon in 1975.