Maria dos Santos Machado | |
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Born | 25 February 1890 |
Died | 4 October 1958 (Aged 68) Lisbon |
Nationality | Portuguese |
Known for | Communist imprisoned by the Estado Novo regime in Portugal on four occasions |
Maria dos Santos Machado (1890 – 1958) was a teacher and a Communist Party activist against the authoritarian Estado Novo (which governed Portugal from 1926 to 1974). She was imprisoned on four occasions between 1936 and her death in 1958.