“The Communist Party did not sign, nor will it sign the death certificate”: CDU remembers “strength of April” to ensure future
“People often ask if I wasn’t afraid at such a young age. I didn’t think about that. I knew I could be arrested, but who thinks something like that would happen to me. I didn’t even do such transcendent things.†Maria José Ribeiro walks through the cramped corridors and rooms of number 329 Rua do HeroÃsmo, in Porto, alongside João Oliveira and Paulo Raimundo.
Current Military Museum, the manor house was once the headquarters of the PIDE delegation in Invicta and it was in this condition that he entered here for the first time in 1959. He was 23 years old and had been married for a few weeks, but I used to participate in youth meetings on Arainho beach. “[Depois das eleições de Humberto Delgado] PIDE understood that it had to launch a strong repressive action, particularly against young people, to nip the evil in the bud.†There were 24 of them and they were all arrested, but Maria José Ribeiro was the last, because she was the only one woman. The experience was “caricature†. “They didn’t really know what to do with me,†account. If at first they thought she was just a young woman dating someone from the movement, she quickly became “labeled†as a potential leader after having found letters from her father in house searches, who had been imprisoned in Tarrafal for 16 years for participating in the Sailors’ Revolt.
