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Summary: Humberto da Silva Delgado was a General of the Portuguese Air Force and politician. His outspoken attitude earned him the title "General Sem Medo" (Fearless General).
Humberto da Silva Delgado was born on 15 May 1906 in Boquilobo, Torres Novas. He was the son of Joaquim da Silva Delgado, army officer, and Maria do Ó Pereira Delgado. He was assassinated by the political police on 13 February 1965.[1][2][3]
Timeline
1922 - Graduated from Military College
1925 - Graduated from Army School
1926 to 1927 - Took aeronautical observer courses
1928 - Officer aviator pilot course
1929 to 1936 - Attended the Central School of Officers, concluding the Course of General Staff
1938 - Deputy of the Military Mission to the Colonies
1929 - Secretary of the Minister of Education, Lieutenant Colonel Eduardo da Costa Ferreira
At the invitation of the Spanish Government accompanied a mission of the Portuguese Legion to Spain, during the civil war.[1]
1942 - Appointed Representative of the Air in the transer of the English base of the Azores, which earned him the attribution of the Order of the British Empire. [1]
1944 - Appointed Director General of the Secretariat of Civil Aviation
1945 - Founded Portuguese Air Transport (TAP), creating the first air connection lines with Angola and Mozambique.
1952 - Appointed military attache at the Portuguese Embassy in Washington and a member of the Military Representatives Committee of NATO.
1953 - At age 47 he was promoted to General
1956 - American Government granted him the rank of officer of the Order of Merit.
1958 - Received an invitation from the democratic opposition to present himself as an independent candidate to the presidential elections. He accepted, stating during the election campaign that he would dismiss Salazar if he won the ballot at the polls. Popular support for his candidacy and subsequent PIDE action caused riots in Porto and Lisbon on 14 and 16 May. After the elections, the results were as follows: 25% of the votes for Humberto Delgado and 75% for Américo Tomas. He was then removed by the Government from the functions he held. Nevertheless, it maintained political activity, creating the Independent National Movement. [1]
1959 - On January 12, 1995, he took refuge in the Brazilian Embassy, ending on April 21, 1959, to Rio de Janeiro, where he came into contact with oppositionists to Salazar's political regime, with the aim of developing against him concerted action. [1]
1961 - Assumed political responsibility for the seizure of the Santa Maria, of the National Shipping Company, on January 22, 1961, carried out by Henrique Galvão together with members of the Iberian Liberation Directory. [1]
1963 - Left Brazil for Czechoslovakia, where he spent three months. He then went to Algeria, where President Ben Bella received him with honors. He assumed the leadership of the Portuguese Revolutionary Junta, the governing body of the Patriotic Front of National Liberation, that integrated different currents of the opposition. It ended up being in disagreement with the other elements in relation to the way to overthrow Salazar. [1]
1965 - Went to Badajoz on February 13, 1965, thinking he would be meeting with army officers. From that day, he and his secretary, Brazilian Arajaryr de Campos, were reported missing. Two months later, on 24 April 1965, following the investigations of a Commission of the International Federation of Human Rights, the bodies were discovered near Villanueva del Fresno[1]
Humberto Delgado was a contributor to several magazines and newspapers, of which one can refer to Revista Militar, Artillery Magazine, Do Air, Aeronautics, National Defense, of which he was editor and chief of propaganda services, and O Século. [1]
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