A PR trip to Cape Verde in honor of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Tarrafal has been approved.

This Friday, Parliament unanimously approved the trip of the President of the Republic to Cape Verde from April 30 to May 3 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Tarrafal concentration camp.

This transfer of the head of state Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was approved at the plenary meeting of the Assembly of the Republic following the debate on Program XXIV of the Government and received positive votes from all parties: PSD, PS. , Chega, IL, BE, PCP, Livre, CDS-PP and PAN.

In a letter addressed to the Assembly of the Republic dated April 4, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa states that he has planned a trip to Cape Verde between April 30 and May 3, at the invitation of his colleague José Maria Neves, to participate in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Tarrafal.

A ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the last prisoners of the Tarrafal concentration camp on the island of Santiago is scheduled for May 1.

Located in the city of Chao Bom, the former Tarrafal concentration camp was built in 1936 and received its first 152 political prisoners on October 29 of that year, operating until 1956.

It reopened in 1962 as Camp de Trabalho de Chão Bom and was intended to imprison anti-colonialists from Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. In total, more than 500 people were kept in this “slow death camp”.

After deactivation, the complex functioned as a military training center. Since 2000, it has housed the Museum of the Resistance, and in 2004 it was classified as a National Cultural Heritage and included in the UNESCO Indicative List of Heritage Sites of Cape Verde.

The consent of the Assembly of the Republic to the trip of the head of state abroad is a formality established by the Constitution, which establishes that the President of the Republic cannot be absent from the territory of the country without the permission of parliament.