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Portugal’s former president Mario Soares gives a speech during his electoral campaign on the streets of Lisbon January 19, 2006. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro/File Photo


Former Portugal PM Soares Dies at 92

Former Portugal PM Soares Dies at 92

by | Jan 7, 2017 | World

Portugal’s former president and prime minister Mario Soares, who was a central figure in the country’s return to democracy in the 1970s after decades of rightist dictatorship, died on Saturday aged 92, doctors said. He was hospitalized on Dec. 13 and had...