Camilo Mortágua

Camilo Tavares Mortágua (29 January 1934 – 1 November 2024) was a Portuguese anti-fascist activist and revolutionary. He was a member of the and was a Grand Officer of the Order of Liberty.

Biography Born in Oliveira de Azeméis on 29 January 1934, Mortágua's family moved to Lisbon at the age of 12. In 1951, his family emigrated to Venezuela. In 1961, he took part in one of the most prolific terrorist acts against the Estado Novo regime, Operation Dulcineia, in which rebels seized control of a Portuguese passenger ship, led by General Humberto Delgado. On 17 May 1967, he participated in a heist on a Banco de Portugal branch in Figueira da Foz. The heist had a goal of financing revolutionary activities against António de Oliveira Salazar. He died in Alvito on 1 November 2024, at the age of 90.