Position abolished(1976–1978) Alexandre Kito (1978–1979)
Personal details
Born
Alves Bernardo Baptista
(1945-07-23)23 July 1945 Piri, Dembos, Portuguese Angola
Died
14 July 1977(1977-07-14) (aged 31) Luanda, Angola
Cause of death
Execution by firing squad
Political party
MPLA
Military service
Allegiance
Angola
Branch/service
People's Army for the Liberation of Angola
Years of service
1966–1977
Rank
Commander
Commands
First Region
Battles/wars
Angolan War of Independence 1977 Angolan coup attempt
Nito Alves (1945–1977) was an Angolan revolutionary and politician who served as the first interior minister of Angola. A hardline member of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Alves is best known for his failed 1977 coup attempt against the government of Agostinho Neto.
During the Angolan War of Independence, Alves fought for the MPLA as a guerrilla in the forests of Dembos, rising through the ranks to become regional commander in the country's north. He developed a reputation as an intransigent Marxist-Leninist, gaining the support of Neto and the MPLA leadership after he vocally denounced Daniel Chipenda's' Eastern Revolt.
With the independence of Angola in 1975, Alves was appointed to head the Ministry of Interior [pt]. He used the position to place his loyal followers - known as Nitistas - into positions of power in the new state. But the Nitistas ended up causing a supply chain crisis after stockpiling food, prompting the government to dissolve Alves' ministry. Alves supported fractionism, opposing Neto's foreign policy of nonalignment, evolutionary socialism, and multiracialism.
In May 1977, the MPLA expelled him from the party. He and his supporters broke into a prison, freeing other supporters, and took control of the radio station in Luanda in an attempted coup. Forces loyal to Neto took back the radio and arrested those involved in the coup attempt, with Cuban soldiers actively helping Neto put down the coup. After the failed coup the MPLA undertook a purge designed to eliminate factionalism, during which Alves and several of his supporters were killed.
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