Aristide Menezes
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Aristide Menezes was a political figure in Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....

 who led the Democratic Front, the first opposition party to be legalized.

Life and career

Menezes helped organize the first public protests after President Joao Bernardo Vieira
João Bernardo Vieira
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was the President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2009. After seizing power in 1980, Vieira ruled for 19 years, and he won a multiparty presidential election in 1994. He was ousted at the end of the 1998–1999 civil war and went into exile...

 seized control in 1980 in a coup against the country's first post-independence government, which had ruled since 1975.

He died after a long illness in Lisbon, Portugal.
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