Remembering Rui D’Espiney, “Europe’s last Maoist Guerrilla”
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 | Articles
Dennis Redmont wrote a story for the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, remembering Rui D’Espiney, Europe’s last Maoist guerrilla, who died in April 2016.
D’Espiney fought the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal, and was incarcerated and tortured for his guerrilla activity. An article written at the time by Dennis Redmont, when he was a young Associated Press correspondent in Portugal, saved D’Espiney’s life when he was in prison, putting his case under great international attention.
In the story, Redmont remembers the occasion when he and D’Espiney, months ago, finally met, 50 years after the first article.