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Cândida Ventura (Cândida Margarida Ventura) was born on 30 June, 1918 in Maputo, Mozambique, is a Portuguese political activist (1918–2015). Discover Cândida Ventura's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

Popular As Cândida Margarida Ventura
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Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 30 June 1918
Birthday 30 June
Birthplace Maputo, Mozambique
Date of death 16 December, 2015
Died Place Portimão, Portugal
Nationality Mozambique

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1918

Cândida Ventura (30 June 1918, Maputo, Mozambique – 16 December 2015, Portimão, Portugal) was a political activist against the Portuguese Estado Novo regime and a political prisoner.

She was the first woman to hold a leadership position in the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).

Cândida Margarida Ventura was born in the city of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), in Portuguese Mozambique, on 30 June 1918.

She was the daughter of a railway official, António Ventura, and a primary-school teacher, Clementina de Deus Franco Pires Ventura.

Shortly after her birth the family returned to Portugal, settling in Caldas de Monchique in the Algarve, where her father worked in the spa town.

At the age of 11, Ventura went to study in Lisbon, being supported by a schoolteachers' organization.

After completing high school, she entered the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, where she studied Historical-Philosophical Sciences.

One of her friends there was the writer and painter Mário Dionísio, who wrote a poem called The ballad of separated friends, in which he referred to her as "Joana with clear eyes".

At university she also met Fernando Piteira Santos.

The two married but the marriage lasted less than a year.

Influenced by the Spanish Civil War, she joined the Brigada Anti-Fascista Femenil (Women’s Anti-fascist Brigade - BAFF), the Portuguese Communist Youth, the Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas (National Council of Portuguese Women – CNMP), the Associação Feminina Portuguesa para a Paz (Portuguese Women's Association for Peace - AFPP) and Socorro Vermelho Internacional (International Red Aid), an aid organization established by the Communist International.

1934

She also worked with the future PCP leader, Álvaro Cunhal, as part of the editorial team of the weekly magazine O Diabo, which was published between 1934 and 1940, before being closed by the regime's censors.

1943

After completing the degree work she started in Lisbon at the University of Coimbra in 1943, Ventura went underground, living a clandestine existence at the request of José Gregório, a member of the Central Committee of the PCP.

One of her functions was to support the secretariat of the Central Committee.

She used various pseudonyms, including Joana, Rosa, André, and Rosário.

1946

In 1946, she was the first woman to join the Central Committee.

1950

In the 1950s, Ventura became responsible for the PCP in the north of the country.

It was at this time that she was accused of factionalism, when she disagreed with the statutes and the programme being planned by the party.

1956

In that year she began publication of Tres Paginas, a bulletin for communist women working underground, which from 1956 took on the name A Voz das Camaradas das Casas do Partido (The Voice of the Comrades of the Party Houses).

1957

As a consequence, she was temporarily removed from the Central Committee, although she returned in 1957.

1958

In 1958 she travelled illegally to the Soviet Union, where her first doubts about the communist regime began to emerge.

Returning to Portugal, and still in hiding, she assumed responsibility for student and intellectual groups in Lisbon.

1960

On 3 August 1960 she was arrested by the Portuguese secret police, along with her partner at the time, Orlando Lindim Ramos, after 17 years in hiding.

Held in isolation and subjected to torture at a time when she was pregnant, she was transferred to hospital in a very bad condition, where she had a miscarriage.

She was eventually sentenced to five years in Caxias prison near Lisbon.

1963

However, she was paroled in 1963 in view of her bad health and fled to the Soviet Union for medical treatment.

Ventura then moved to Czechoslovakia, where she wrote for the Communist International magazine under the pseudonym of Catarina Mendes and also helped edit an international magazine called Problems of Peace and Socialism.

She met and befriended Alexander Dubček, the Czechoslovak communist leader, and Artur London, who would later author the preface to Ventura's book about her experience with socialism.

1968

She was in Prague during the political liberalization of the first half of 1968 under Dubček, known as the Prague Spring, and witnessed the invasion of the country by Warsaw Pact troops.

1969

Her daughter Rosa joined her in Prague in 1969, when she was 17.

After the Carnation Revolution that overthrew the Estado Novo, Ventura returned to Portugal.

However, her denunciation of the Soviet Union's repression of Eastern Europe led to a split with the PCP.

She initially obtained work with the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1976

Moving back to the Algarve in 1976 she became a schoolteacher and, subsequently, a professor at the Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes (ISMAT), which belongs to Grupo Lusófona.

1984

In 1984 she wrote O socialismo que eu vivi (The socialism that I lived), in which she recounted her experiences and criticised the oppression that characterized communist regimes.

2015

Ventura, died on 16 December 2015, in Portimão, following respiratory problems.