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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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.
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