Former journalist and communist leader Fernando Correia died this Friday, aged 81, the PCP announced in a statement, without specifying the cause of death.
Born in Coimbra on July 4, 1942, Fernando António Pinheiro Correia was a journalist at Diário Popular and Diário de Lisboa and editor-in-chief of Seara Nova magazine between 1970 and April 25, 1974.
According to the PCP, Fernando Correia studied at the University of Lisbon, where he completed a degree in Philosophy and was an association leader, namely the Pró-Associação da Faculdade de Letras.
“He made a valuable contribution to preparing the departure of the first Forward! legal, on May 17, 1974, namely by making his house available for holding meetings, in which he actively participated together with Álvaro Cunhal and some of the future editors”, the communists state.
Fernando Correia was a journalist editor and deputy editor-in-chief of Forward! between May 1974 and January 1986, the year in which he joined the editorial board of the magazine Vida Soviet, the statement also reads.