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Madrid.- Former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos died this Friday at the age of 79 in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain, where he was hospitalized after suffering a cardiac arrest on June 23, the reported presidency of his office in a statement country on social networks.
“He was a unique figure in the Angolan homeland,” reads the text, which highlights Dos Santos’ commitment to the country from an early age, “he played a crucial role in the fight against colonization, in the conquest of the national independence, in the consolidation of the Angolan nation, in its confirmation in the sphere of nations” and “in the realization of peace, reconstruction and national reconciliation”.
Born in the Angolan capital in 1942 and the son of a bricklayer, Dos Santos ran the former Portuguese colony with an autocratic fist for almost four decades, from 1979 to 2017.RHC)