President Jose Eduardo dos Santos

• The father of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos was a construction worker. President José Eduardo dos Santos joined the MPLA while he was still pursuing his schooling.
• Increasing repression led him to go into self-exile in 1961.
• From the Republic of the Congo, he collaborated with MPLA, and soon took the post of Vice-president.
• So as to move further with his education, President José Eduardo dos Santos moved to the former USSR and there he recieved his engineering degree.
• President Jose Eduardo dos Santos returned to Angola and joined hands with Exercito Popular de Libertacao de Angola (EPLA) which is a branch of MPLA.
• In 1974, President José Eduardo dos Santos was promoted to Sub commander in the second region of the telecoms service.
• President Jose Eduardo dos Santos became the coordinator of the MPLA’s Department of foreign affair. He also looked towards its health department.
• After the death of the first president of Angola, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos came into power on 20th September, 1979.

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President António Agostinho Neto

• President António Agostinho Neto was born in Angola and attended his high school in Luanda. He studies medicine from the universities of Coimbra and Lisbon
• In 1951, President António Agostinho Neto was arrested for his active participation in separatist activism.
• After 7 long years of imprisonment, President António Agostinho Neto was released. Then he completed his studies and married Maria Eugenia on the day of his graduation.
• President António Agostinho Neto formed the Popular Movement in colaboration with the Party of United Struggle for Africans in Angola (PLUA) to work for the liberation of Angola.
• In 1962, President António Agostinho Neto visited Washington D.C., and asked for help from the Kennedy administartion in the war against Portugal.
• Being one of the first members of MPLA, President António Agostinho Neto led Angola after the war of Independence on 11th November.
• Under his power, the government built close contacts with the Soviet Union and also other nations such as Eastern bloc and also with other Communist states like Cuba.

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