Cape Verde History

Cape Verde - national flag

Cape Verde - National Flag, The Flag has been official since 1992 when the Movement for Democracy (MPD) came to power and abolished the country's flag from 1975. The new flag shows a closer association with the United States and Europe. Blue stands for the infinite space of sea and sky. The three lines and stars in the ring symbolize the world and Cape Verde itself located on the path that the Estate will take in its efforts to build the country.

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Cape Verde - history

Cape Verde - history, Cape Verde was uninhabited before the Portuguese discovered the islands in 1456. The first settlements occurred around 1460. The islands became an important intermediate station in the slave trade and experienced some prosperity. The decline of the slave trade in the 1800's. in combination with strong periods of drought, the economy destroyed; However, shipping across the Atlantic brought about from the late 1800's. a minor recovery. Cape Verde gained the status of overseas Portuguese province in 1951.

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According to a2zgov, Cape Verde was closely linked to Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) during colonial times, and in both countries the socialist PAIGC with Amílcar Cabral led the armed struggle against the Portuguese. Cape Verde became independent in 1975 and Aristides Pereira was elected president. PAIGC wanted to unite Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, but after a coup in Guinea-Bissau in 1980, those plans were abandoned and PAIGC was replaced by the party PAICV, which was the country's only allowed party until 1990, when the multi-party system was introduced. In the elections the following year, the opposition party MpD won power and António Monteiro (b. 1944) became president.

Pedro Pires (b. 1934) of PAICV won the presidential election in 2001 and was re-elected in 2006. He was the country's prime minister from 1975-91. Drought problems hit the islands in 1996 and 2002, and the fall failed. But otherwise, the politically stable Cape Verde has seen economic progress and is now one of Africa's richest countries in terms of GDP per capita. in part, partly because of the rapidly growing tourism. However, parts of the country's population continue to live in great poverty. In 2011, Jorge Carlos Fonseca of MpD became new president.