Cabo Verde, Um Corpo que se Recusa a Morrer - José Vicente Lopes
“Cape Verde, a Body that Refuses to Die, 70 Years Against Hunger, 1949 – 2019” is a book of around 300 pages by journalist and writer José Vicente Lopes. The book portrays the hunger crises that plagued the country until 1949, a year that was also marked by the Assistance Disaster, which officially killed 232 people.
The author discusses the hunger crises that Cape Verde experienced until 1949 due to climatic factors and the way life was organized in this archipelago as a Portuguese colony.
“The 1947-49 crisis is marked in time by the Assistance Disaster, which occurred in the city of Praia on February 20, 1949. It is from this tragedy that the situation begins to change, with more careful management of the food issue in this archipelago”, highlights the author.
José Vicente Lopes added that “Among other reasons, the international situation changed at the time, firstly with the end of the Second World War and, secondly, with the creation of the United Nations (UN), which began to demand accountability from the powers colonial management of overseas territories in their possession”.
In addition to bringing facts silenced by the censorship of the Estado Novo, the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar that lasted in Portugal between 1932 and 1974, this new book also builds a bridge with the current reality, showing what has been done in the last 70 years, so that the country would no longer suffer from hunger crises.
“Cape Verde, a Body that Refuses to Die, 70 Years Against Hunger, 1949 – 2019” is a book of around 300 pages by journalist and writer José Vicente Lopes. The book portrays the hunger crises that plagued the country until 1949, a year that was also marked by the Assistance Disaster, which officially killed 232 people.
The author discusses the hunger crises that Cape Verde experienced until 1949 due to climatic factors and the way life was organized in this archipelago as a Portuguese colony.
“The 1947-49 crisis is marked in time by the Assistance Disaster, which occurred in the city of Praia on February 20, 1949. It is from this tragedy that the situation begins to change, with more careful management of the food issue in this archipelago”, highlights the author.
José Vicente Lopes added that “Among other reasons, the international situation changed at the time, firstly with the end of the Second World War and, secondly, with the creation of the United Nations (UN), which began to demand accountability from the powers colonial management of overseas territories in their possession”.
In addition to bringing facts silenced by the censorship of the Estado Novo, the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar that lasted in Portugal between 1932 and 1974, this new book also builds a bridge with the current reality, showing what has been done in the last 70 years, so that the country would no longer suffer from hunger crises.
“Cape Verde, a Body that Refuses to Die, 70 Years Against Hunger, 1949 – 2019” is a book of around 300 pages by journalist and writer José Vicente Lopes. The book portrays the hunger crises that plagued the country until 1949, a year that was also marked by the Assistance Disaster, which officially killed 232 people.
The author discusses the hunger crises that Cape Verde experienced until 1949 due to climatic factors and the way life was organized in this archipelago as a Portuguese colony.
“The 1947-49 crisis is marked in time by the Assistance Disaster, which occurred in the city of Praia on February 20, 1949. It is from this tragedy that the situation begins to change, with more careful management of the food issue in this archipelago”, highlights the author.
José Vicente Lopes added that “Among other reasons, the international situation changed at the time, firstly with the end of the Second World War and, secondly, with the creation of the United Nations (UN), which began to demand accountability from the powers colonial management of overseas territories in their possession”.
In addition to bringing facts silenced by the censorship of the Estado Novo, the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar that lasted in Portugal between 1932 and 1974, this new book also builds a bridge with the current reality, showing what has been done in the last 70 years, so that the country would no longer suffer from hunger crises.
This book is out of print