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Burial of General Humberto Delgado in Lisbon | January 1975

Friday, January 24th 1975. Footage of the burial of General Humberto Delgado at a cemetery overlooking the Tagus river in Lisbon. The General had been assassinated along with his Brazilian secretary Victoria Araya de Campos back in February 1965. Both had been lured to the Spanish border town of Olivenza by agents of PIDE, the secret police of the regime led by António de Oliveira Salazar. Source: Reuters News Archive. Music: Henry Purcell's "Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary II Z27 : I March" performed by John Eliot Gardiner Note: Delgado, known to his people as "General sem Medo" (literally General Without Fear") had been the spiritus rector of the coup staged by left-wing military officers in April 1974, which had overthrown 48 years of totalitarian rule by Salazar's Estado Novo. Delgado had challenged the regime's preferred candidate in the 1958 presidential election which was rigged against him. His outspokenness earned him the enmity of the Salazar regime. When asked prior to the 1958 election what his attitude would be towards Salazar, Delgado replied: "Obviamente, demito-o!" ("Obviously, I'll sack him!") He was forced into exile, first to Brazil, and then to Algeria where he lived under the protection of Ahmed Ben Bella. In 1964, he established the Portuguese National Liberation Front in Rome and advocated that the Salazar regime could only be removed through a military coup. The official report by the Salazar government of his death was that he had been shot in self-defence, a total fabrication given that Delgado had been unarmed and his secretary had been strangled. Both bodies were discovered two months later, near the Spanish village of Villanueva del Fresno. They were in a decomposed state and covered with acid and lime. Delgado's assassin was later identified as Casimiro Monteiro, the PIDE agent who also assassinated Eduardo Mondlane, the leader of FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), the Mozambican liberation movement which sought independence from Portugal. Monteiro also strangled Delgado's secretary. He was later convicted in abstentia but never served his sentence. After the Carnation Revolution of April 1974, he sought refuge in the South African embassy in Lisbon, later moving to South Africa where he lived the rest of his life under the alias "José Fernandez". He died in 1993.