Jose Eduardo Dos Santos: Dictator Of The 20th Century

One of the dictators of the 20th century is Jose Eduardo Dos Santos (J.E. for short). He is the president of Angola know but I want to go back to the start of his life to find out what might have led him to be so powerful. He was not born in Angola; he was actually born in Luanda on August 28 of 1942 (2). His father is Eduardo Avelino Dos Santos and he was a retired mason. His mother is Jacinta Jose Paulino and she was a housewife (1). He finished his elementary schooling in Luanda. In 1950 and got his high school diploma at Salvador Correia National in Lyceum (1). After he graduated from high school he started getting more into the political activities that he really enjoyed (2). He then joined a group of political people of People’s Movement
for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). This group was helping better the country that he lived in. They got involved with political acts and other things to help the country that all the people knew. In November of 1961 while how was still a teen he had left the country to become the coordinator of the activities of the youth wing of the MPLA group. He left because there was an outbreak of Portuguese colonial occupation in early February (2). When he come back he decided to go back to school. Jose went to further his education in 1963 at USSR as a MPLAs grant-aided student and matriculated at the Baku Petroleum and Gas Institute. He got the grant because he was there best group member, doing what ever he could to help the group. He graduated in 1969 with an oil industry engineer diploma (1). But while he was a student he started getting into the military training as a signalman to help his century. The MPLA was involved with the new impetus in connection with foundation of the party. Jose took a role in this operation of armed group that was created in suburbs of Luanda (1).