Francisco Miguel Duarte

Francisco Miguel Duarte, also known by the nickname Chico Sapateiro (18 December 1907 – 21 May 1988) was a Portuguese writer and a regional leader in the Portuguese Communist Party. He was a poet, whose principal subjects are revolution and the Portuguese people. Among his best known works is a poem in honor of the memory of Catarina Eufémia, his fellow countrywoman, since the author, like Eufémia, was a native of Baleizão, a village near Beja in the south of Portugal. He is also known for his book Das Prisões à Liberdade.

Imprisonment

He was the leader of the regional committee of the Portuguese Communist Party in

• Armed Revolutionary Action

External links

(In Portuguese)

• A report in Avante! about the peasant struggle in Alentejo
• The presence of Duarte in Tarrafal
• The shoemakers and the opposition to the Estado Novo regime
• Brief biography of Francisco Miguel Duarte (in Portuguese)