PANJIM: Portuguese Union leader Kalidás Barreto, a founder of CGTP 50 years ago, died in Castanheira de Pera, Portuguese newspapers reported.
The 88-year-old Luís Maria Kalidás da Costa Barreto, himself having authored various books, was the son of Goan writer and intellectual Adeodato Barreto, and was born in the Évora District, from where the family moved to the District of Leiria, where he lived his life.
Barreto was involved in the movement to oppose the dictatorship of António Salazar and Marcelo Caetano, and following the Carnations Revolution of April 25, 1974, was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly, on the Socialist Party ticket, the following year. He later quit the party and in 1978 was one of the founders of the Union of the Left for Socialist Democracy (UEDS), and later returned to the Socialists.
In 2004, during the commemorations of the 30th anniversary of the revolution, he was bestowed the title of Great Officer of the Order of Liberty.
