The wake will be held on Tuesday from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM at the Military Academy Chapel in Paço da Rainha, with a funeral Mass scheduled for Wednesday at 11:00 AM. The service will be held at the same location, followed by the burial at Alto de S. João Cemetery where the cremation ceremony will take place.
Colonel Carlos Matos Gomes, one of the influential figures in the 1974 Portuguese Revolution, known as the Captains of April, passed away today at a hospital in Lisbon.
Under the pen name Carlos Vale Ferraz, Matos Gomes authored numerous works focusing on the Colonial War, including ‘Nó Cego’ and ‘A Última Viúva de África’, the latter of which earned him the Fernando Namora Prize in 2018. His book ‘Os Lobos não Usam Coleira’ (1995) was later adapted into the film ‘Os Imortais’ (2003) by António-Pedro Vasconcelos.
Last year, publishing under his real name, Matos Gomes released ‘Geração D’, described in an interview with Agência Lusa as both a tribute and an autobiography of his generation. This generation experienced the dictatorship, the Colonial War, and took part in the events of April 25, 1974.
‘Geração D’, he clarified, refers to the generation of “Democracy, Desertion, Decolonization, Doctrines and Teaching, Discussion, Dialectic, Demystifying, Demobilizing, Denunciation, Disobedience, Divorce”, a generation that “lived under an ’empire of madness’ and liberated itself from it.”
Carlos de Matos Gomes was born on July 24, 1946, in Vila Nova da Barquinha. He served as an Army officer in the Cavalry Arm, undertaking missions in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau as part of the Commandos.
