Carlos Matos Gomes, captain of April, has died

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, recalls that Matos Gomes had “a very diverse and intense life of civic and pedagogical intervention, always defending the values he fought for more than five decades”

The wake takes place on Tuesday between 19:00 and 23:00 at the Military Academy Chapel, in Paço da Rainha, where a mass of the present body will be celebrated on Wednesday at 11:00am, followed by a funeral at the Alto de São João Cemetery, where the cremation ceremony will take place. Colonel Carlos Matos Gomes, one of the Captains of April, died today at a hospital in Lisbon. Matos Gomes, under the pseudonym Carlos Vale Ferraz, has published se…

“He left serenely and with April songs.” This is how the family announced this Sunday, April 13, the death of Carlos Matos Gomes, on the profile that the colonel maintained on Facebook. The details of the funeral ceremonies for the former captain of Abril are not yet known. Carlos de Matos Gomes was born on July 24th […] The content Carlos Matos Gomes (1946-2025) appears first in Médio Tejo.

Matos Gomes, under the pseudonym Carlos Vale Ferraz, published several books on the theme of the Colonial War, including “The Blind Knot”, “The Last Widow in Africa” and “The Wolves Don't Wear a Collar” (1995), which was adapted to the cinema by António-Pedro Vasconcelos, “The Immortals” (2003). “To all the friends and followers of my father, Carlos Matos Gomes, it is with deep sadness that I inform that he passed away today, April 13th, at the …

Coronel died this Sunday at the age of 78. The news was announced by her daughter on social media.

He was 78 years old