Alberto Villaverde Cabral
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- Journalist
- Politician
Alberto Villaverde Cabral | |
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| Born | 21 June 1942 Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal |
| Died | 19 August 1996 (aged 54) Portugal |
| Citizenship | Portuguese |
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| Known for | Director of Information at RTP |
| Political party | Portuguese Communist Party |
| Children | Teresa, Manuel, and Joana Villaverde |
Alberto Villaverde Cabral (21 June 1942 – 19 August 1996) was a Portuguese journalist and politician who served as the director of Information at RTP in the mid-1970s.[1][2]
Alberto Villaverde Cabral was born on 21 June 1942, in the Azores municipality of Ponta Delgada, as the son of Teresa Villaverde Rovirosa (1920–?), a native of Tarragona, and António Joaquim de Andrade Cabral (1908–), an agricultural engineer from Lisbon, who had to live in Ponta Delgada between 1940 and 1942 due to professional reasons.[1] His father was a cultured man and a very competent technician, while his mother was a very open-minded Spanish lady, thanks to whom he learned Castilian, thus becoming bilingual.[1]
Villaverde was raised at Avenida Carlos Silva in Santo Amaro de Oeiras, where he completed his primary and secondary studies.[1]
Political career
Villaverde began his political activity at the age of 16, when he was still a student at the Oeiras high school, by joining his older brother Manuel in the campaign for the 1958 presidential elections, first in favor of Arlindo Vicente and, after his withdrawal, in support of Humberto Delgado. It was around this time that he had his first interaction with the Portuguese Communist Party.[1] Like so many other students, he was involved in the Academic Crisis of 1962, participating in the student movement in the high schools.[1]
On 5 October 1963, Villaverde married Marília Pereira Morais, already having two children by the time he was arrested by the PIDE in 1967, spending around two months in Caxias.[1] In total, he had three children: Teresa, Manuel, and Joana Villaverde.[1] Between 1969 and 1974, he actively participated in the Portuguese Democratic Movement (CDE), even becoming a member of its Executive Committee,[1] while his wife Marília was one of the founders of the Democratic Women's Movement, even becoming a union leader of the Union of Portuguese Anti-Fascist Resistants.[3]
