“Capitalism we knew had brought xibalo [forced labor], the paddle and all the humiliation associated with fascism, therefore we could not want something similar,” he says in an interview with Lusa Armando Guebuza, noting that the leaders of his party They acted “with emotion but also with a certain rationality.”
“The West did not come to our aid at the time, especially at the initial stage, and even then only with democratic forces here and there, it appeared that” considers the former combatant in the struggle for national liberation and held various positions in the Mozambican Government and Frelimo (Liberation Front of Mozambique) to occupy the presidency for ten years until January 2015.
Mozambique began however to open its economy about a decade after independence, because, as the leaders did not want a model that “doing harm to people,” understood that, “from a certain point in which it found a formula I could do well, they had to hold her. ”
“They are learning processes,” says Armando Guebuza, noting that the discussion of ideologies was justified for a period of “Iron Curtain” and now “no longer makes sense” as it is not relevant ideologically set Frelimo today, the end 40 years in the exercise of power in Mozambique.
“It is now clear that countries, even Westerners who are Social Democrats and give that much to the people, to achieve this, the capital has to be there, the market has to be there,” he sustains the Mozambican former president and leader Frelimo until last March, adding that “there is no other way but to be able to amass [wealth] and then discuss the distribution.”
Guebuza, 72, joined very young to the liberation struggle in Mozambique, precisely because he felt “suffocated” by the colonial power, and this condition leads to seeking “a way of surfacing on the surface to survive.”
At that time, recalls, “there was not much public information in terms of newspapers, television did not exist”, but reports circulated of nearby people living daily colonial domination.
“And then there was our own experience that made us realize that it was necessary to leave the choke,” according to Guebuza, who was a prominent member of Frelimo during the period of the release and then Minister of Internal Affairs in the transitional government.
It was in this position he lived the day of independence, June 25, 1975, after the Lusaka agreements, “who had a turbulent reaction in many parts of the country, particularly in Lourenço Marques [now Maputo],” and that led him to focus on the safety of the ceremony.
That day, “the emotions naturally existed” but the main concern “was to ensure that the ceremony ran well”, focusing on protection of the first Mozambican President Samora Machel, and numerous foreign delegations who came to Mozambique.
“I could not rid myself in two,” still remembers the old statesman, noting that “emotions are not as thoughts are things that spring up in a moment, indiscritíveis” and that ended up making the live event, before or after, the “Very special” way.
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