Yesterday, the leader of the fraud in the 2001 Presidential election in São Nicolau, Cape Verde, spoke to a journalist in an exclusive interview and revealed part of the plan of the fraud. Him, and others involved were promised money and a VISA to Europe in exchange for the job.

He is asking for compensation from the people who hired him. Otherwise, he threaten to start shouting names of the "big cahunas" that masterminded the fraud. And the list goes far he says.

After serving time in jail for being convicted of the practice of fraud in the 2001 presidential election, Eduardo Fortes, broke down the secrets that were never told (even in court) because he felt he was left down by who hired him to do the "job".

Speaking with no shame, seven years past the fraud, he says it is nothing to hide no more once he got convicted and served time for what he did. He promised that we will say names if he doesn't get payed. According to him, he was not helped by the people who hired him and that promised to pay the justice expenses, which they didn't.
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Líder de Fraude Eleitoral Quebra Silêncio Em 2001, as eleições presidenciais de Cabo Verde tiveram quatro candidatos. Esses candidatos eram Pedro Pires (actual presidente da República), Carlos Veiga, David Hopfer Almada, e Jorge Carlos Fonseca. A primeira volta dessas eleições aconteceu no dia 11 de Fevereiro de 2001. Passaram para a segunda volta os candidatos com mais votos, isto é, Carlos Veiga e Pedro Pires. A segunda volta foi realizada quinze dias depois e houve acusações de fraude eleitoral em Covoada, São Nicolau. A notícia fez muito alvoroço nos media, os suspeitos foram julgados e condenados a alguns anos de prisão. Cumpriram a pena na cadeia de Ribeirinha (São Vicente) e na Vila da Ribeira Brava, São Nicolau. Mas, o segredo, nunca foi revelado. Após sete anos, o líder da fraude eleitoral nessas eleições presidenciais de 2001, Eduardo Fortes, revela parte do esquema da fraude e exige uma indemnização dos alegados mandatários do crime. Fortes fez a revelação hoje em entrevista à Rádio Nova, e promete adiantar nomes se os mandatários não cumprirem com a sua parte. Segundo o mesmo, a lista de nomes pode ir longe e há mandatários tanto em São Nicolau, ilha onde reside, como em outras ilhas. O líder das fraudes ameaça recorrer a instâncias internacionais se for necessário. Eduardo Fortes revelou ao jornalista Emanuel Semedo que ele e os outros autores da fraude deveriam receber em troca do serviço, dinheiro e visto para a Europa. Eduardo Fortes diz-se indignado, pois, além de ter cumprido tempo na prisão, teve de pagar as multas na justiça com o seu próprio dinheiro. Diz que os mandatários lhe haviam prometido que iriam responsabilizar-se pelas dívidas e não cumpriram. Não acredita? Então faça o download da entrevista com Emanuel Semedo da Rádio Nova. Only registered users can see links on this forum! Register or Login on forum!

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It looks like "katxupa ten tosinhu", i.e., there's something fishy about these accusations. When you get the President, the Prime Minister, and the Attorney General involved and worry about this, you gotta take another look into it. As they say, if it smells like fish, looks like fish, it may be fish.

The Attorney General talked about the case on this article here CASO COVOADA: PROCURADORIA-GERAL DA REPÚBLICA PONDERA REABERTURA DO PROCESSO
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But what I found interesting are the declarations of the Prime Minister. If you can read Portuguese, take a look at his comments on this piece that appeared on Expresso das Ilhas on February 11, 2008:

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PRESIDENCIAIS 2001: PRIMEIRO-MINISTRO REAGE AO “CASO COVOADA/SÃO NICOLAU” Only registered users can see links on this forum! Register or Login on forum! A novela "fraude eleitoral de 2001", cujos desenvolvimentos tiveram lugar na semana passada, com a revelação da história das fraudes das eleições presidenciais em 2001, por Eduardo Fortes, continua a dar que falar. Depois da reacção do Presidente da República, e de este ter dito que o assunto está "morto" e que não merece seu comentário, desta, foi a vez do Primeiro-ministro José Maria Neves a reagir, pela primeira vez, sobre esta notícia que tem suscitado reacções por parte de diversos partidos políticos. Em declarações à imprensa, o primeiro-ministro considerou que poderá haver grupos que estejam a querer criar "crispação política" e instigar "ódio" e "vingança". "Enquanto primeiro-ministro de Cabo Verde, devo dizer que em momentos específicos de campanhas eleitorais há um grupo muito localizado que procura crispação politica, procura instigar o ódio e à vingança para compensar a falta de argumentos e fundamentos para uma campanha político-partidária seje levada com base em modelos", diz Neves para depois apelar ao povo cabo-verdiano e aos partidos políticos para, juntos, fazerem uma campanha política com elevação "na base de argumentos e ideias". José Maria Neves justifica o seu apelo pelo facto de, segundo ele, o povo cabo-verdiano ter dado lições de maturidade e de forte participação cívica no processo de democracia, em Cabo Verde. "Estamos num estado democrático. Não vale a pena fazer acusações infundadas muito menos criar um ambiente de crispação politica. O Governo está a fazer um esforço no sentido de fazer um novo recenseamento, com um volume grande de investimentos para garantir eleições livres e transparentes e para corrigir todas as falhas no recenseamento de 95 e é isto que deve ser valorizado", advogou Neves. O fecho deste caso, e que muitos esperam, é que os envolvidos revelem os nomes dos mandantes e que o tribunal reabra o processo para que seja analisado e tomadas as medidas. De recordar que depois de sete anos, um cidadão que foi preso por praticar fraude, segundo ele a mando de pessoas ligadas ao PAICV, tornou público esta história que promete correr muita tinta. Expresso das ilhas on-line tem tentando apurar junto do Procurador Geral da República, Franklim Furtado, sobre a reabertura ou não deste processo, mas em vão.

yeah, interesting the Prime minister. But not quite as the president itself. Check what he says! Wich is basically the same thing but not with the same effect coming from the mouth of the one the fraud would benefit.

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"Estamos em 2008 e que eu saiba vocês querem trazer para discussão factos que aconteceram em 2001. Portanto, é para mim uma questão encerrada, é assunto morto e que não comento", reage assim o Presidente da República, Pedro Pires, quando questionado sobre a fraude eleitoral nas presidenciais de 2001 em Covoada, ilha de São Nicolau.

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Carlos Veiga has pronounced about the reaction of Prime Minister Neves and President Pires. He expressed disappointment on the attitude of the two top leaders of Cape Verdean Government to try to get the general people to not pay attention to the accusations of electoral fraud during the 2001 Presidential elections. According to the ex-Prime Minister Veiga and 2001 Presidential candidate, the Court has confirm the main content of the fraud allegations by Eduardo Fortes.

Below is his interview posted at Expresso das Ilhas online:

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CASO COVOADA: CARLOS VEIGA CONSIDERA “DECEPCIONANTES” E “INFELIZES” DECLARAÇÕES DE PEDRO PIRES E JOSÉ MARIA NEVES De Carlos Veiga, Expresso das ilhas online recebeu uma reacção às declarações do Presidente da República, Pedro Pires e do Primeiro Ministro, José Maria Neves, sobre o badalado caso Covoada, na qual o ex-Primeiro Ministro e candidato às presidenciais de 2001 coloca a seguintes questões: "Pedro Pires e José Maria Neves não se importam com a fraude? Acham que para ganhar as eleições vale tudo? Que os fins justificam os meios, mesmo que se trate de fins criminosos e de meios criminosos? Que a corrupção eleitoral é lícita? Que a desonestidade é lícita? Que enganar o povo é lícito? Se sim, que moral terá o Estado face à corrupção, aos criminosos e aos desonestos em geral? E é isso que o povo cabo-verdiano deles espera?". Eis a declaração, na íntegra, para o nosso público leitor Para mim as reacções de Pedro Pires e de José Maria Neves às declarações de Eduardo Fortes foram decepcionantes e muitíssimo infelizes. Sobretudo Pedro Pires devia mais a si próprio, ao papel cimeiro que teve na história recente de Cabo Verde e à alta função em que se encontra investido. Fiquei triste pela democracia e por Cabo Verde. O que todos esperavam (e esperam há sete anos) é que descansassem os cabo-verdianos de que não tiveram nada a ver com a fraude eleitoral, que condenassem inequivocamente toda e qualquer fraude, que declarassem que ninguém está acima da lei e que incentivassem a Justiça a investigar a verdade e a punir os culpados, libertando os inocentes da suspeita. Em vez disso Pedro Pires - que já havia, de modo comprometedor, declarado em 2006 não valer a pena chorar sobre o leite derramado - vem agora dizer que o assunto está morto porque o STJ validou as eleições, dando a ideia de que só o preocupa o resultado eleitoral oficial. E José Maria Neves fala de acusações sem fundamento e de vingança e ódio de um grupinho, procurando negar o inegável e desviar a atenção do fundamental: os tribunais já confirmaram o essencial do que Fortes agora declara. Ambos deram a ideia de que temem o mais que esse senhor ameaça pôr a claro - os mandantes do crime - e por isso querem todos (os jornalistas, a Justiça, a sociedade) calados e em silêncio, como se deve estar perante o que já é "morto". (...)

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I am down with the Nation and not with none of these parties but Veiga expressed himself well in the note. Democracy for CV my people!
No dictatorship, not anymore!

It's important to keep in mind that Pedro Pires, whom the accuser is pointed to have benefited from the fraud, won that election against Carlos Veiga by either 12 or 16 votes. So, if Eduardo Fortes' allegations are true, that election was stolen from the Cape Verdean people. In that case, its perpetrators must be brought to just ice and thrown in jail.

Gee, what's happening to the "Best Democratic System in Africa?"

Who knows what really happened?
This week, in an article of Asemana, the former lawyer of Eduardo Fortes says the fraud leader is a lyer. i will send that article when they put it online.
According to that same lawyer MPD and Carlos Veiga might be behind the scheme that make this ex-convicted come to public "two days" before the "autarquicas" elections. This case goes much deep that we can see. We gotta follow it and check where it leads, and who's lying.

Salah i must say i see your point. Indeed is noble what you trying to say.
But my friend it doesen't matter who's fault it is, the people must know the truth, wheter it happened 800 years ago or 8 years ago, don't you agree? i think so! So, the problem is now the capeverdean people is willing to know who mislead them, who told lies and who did not. And, once the elections are on the door i, like most of the Cv people, consider it crucial to know the truth. No matter who gets slapped by it, let the truth rule, i say!

Salah Mateus,
I still agree with you in a certain point. But not quite everything you say.

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I do know why some people don't like President Pedro Pires who is a Hero. Just as for years many folk from St Vincent did not like folk from Fogo. Just as there has been division from Island to Island for many years created by Fascist Portugal of the past that can't be denied.

A true capeverdean should not have such craps in his mind. We are all capeverdean, no matter wich island we come from. Pedro Pires, or the government he belonged to (before PAICV lost to MPD) commited many mistakes. And those happenings are facts, not fairy tales. PEOPLE got tortured by that government, and that is not the right thing to do with our brothers, according to my humanitarian view of life.

Well, Carlos Veiga and his government did some things we all didn't like. You pointed some yourself.

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Now I can be corrected,but it has been said that some folk in MPD was buying back into the Colonialist way of thinking and that deals were made with the electric companies and some deals were cut with Portuguese Banks,which in fact caused many problems for the economy of Cabo Verde. Even the changing of the flag with out the consent of the people.

And although i can't prove with facts, i have to tell you is a thing we all felt, that's why we gave the power back to PAICV in the other election.
I personally don't agree with both parties (PAICV and MPD) on a lot of things they did. And i watched and felt them here, with my family. I suffered some of their effects with my family, HERE in this holy CV ground.

They are all human, all capeverdeans and all commited mistakes. The same way they all gave their contribute, in their way, to make this country what it is today. None but God is to judje their action. We only wanna judje who we throw our vote on, before they do a bunch of mistakes like they did before. And in order to do that, we need the truth, no matter who it hurts.

The point here is knowing the truth. Anyway we can't take it back (the fraud) but we can prevent or avoid things like that to happen. We can make the guilty ones pay for some of their mistakes (fraud included). And THAT my friend, is Democracy. That should be what Amilcar Cabral(or whoever from those names you said) would want if they wanted "povo pa mandá na sê cabeça." That's what i think. If you think i'm wrong, feel free to correct me! If you don't agree "he who commited a felony must face it's consequences", correct me!

Now, i don't know at this point, wich party is right in this, or if the so called Fraud Leader Eugénio Fortes is just raising a wave in someone's benefit. Plus i can' prove who he is trying to benefit. But one thing i know fo' sure. The "Supremo Tribunal de Justiça" is looking upon opening the fraud case again to find guilty ones, and i think it would be a fair move in a democratic state.

I think the people must know who they trust on. Maybe i'm just a guy from São Vicente dreaming with a democracy that you see in different ways than i do, but one thing i know. The constituiton of our country says it is the right thing to do when we open this case again and point fingers at responsibles for such cheatings on people's will.

Finally i must say again that this may be just a view of someone who cannot and wish not to have bonds with none of the parties envolved in this, because he already have a bond with the truth. Someone who wish not to lick none of the parties boots, because whatever they did good, they did it as a commitement we (all capeverdeans) have to this land and people, when the same people elect you for a public task. And that shall always prevail and rule my opinions, concerning Cape Verde. God Bless ALL Capeverdeans (note, i mean all really, not just the ones from S. Vicente, where i was born and raised).

My Dear Friend. We both know that nothing is perfect by man.

Oh as it is said we have all fallen short of the glory of God and all of our righteousness is like a filthy rag.

Do you know that in the USA there was a group of Caboverdiano Americano lawyers who had organization that did control Cabo verde for many years along with Portugal dictatorship. Along with the Church.

They got rich by fleecing the people of Cabo Verde by fraud or extortion,they worked with some CV crooked lawers in Angola and in Portugal. I will not mention any names,organization such Continental Portugal & CV Federation and others.

They were against independence,to have independence would mean that they would loose crooked economic control of the Islands. Some of these families were big land owners who kept the poor in a state of being wretched. They had no love for the people only love for the money.

They did every thing they could to stop the struggle of independence.
They even went so far as to attack those who favored (supported and approved the movement of Cabral) many of those people were beaten or found missing or dead on the side of the mountain.

Revolution does some strange things,some one wins and some one looses.
To the victor goes the spoil. Many so-called intellectual petite-bourgeoisie try to oganize counter revolutionist, I am sure that some people got hurt monetarily and those who came with the intent to hurt the freedom fighters or to kill them received what they deserved. They the money changers were defeated by the majority will of the people who wanted the change for a democracy and today a democracy we have.. some people wanted to stay in power with the dictators;they were the dishonest fraudulent criminals.

Here are some facts about Cabo Verde:We talk a lot about national identity.

" 'Color prejudice' has clearly been a subject of enormous interest to all 'mixed' communities,however factually homogeneous they might really be;and color prejudice had long become a social regulator by the time that an indigenous Cape Verdean people emerged from mingling of many African peoples with a relatively tiny number of Europeans".

" 'Distinction by skin color' seems in time to have reached an almost pathological condition. A census of 1856, for example, solemnly listed no fewer than seventeen(17) distinctions of skin colour ranging from various shades of 'very dark' to ;almost white'; and it appears to have been assumed that anyone could recognize these differences as easliy as if they had been uniforms which carried,as it were,corresponding badges of rank". You can read more about this in the Book The Fortunate Isles (A Study in African Transformation) By Dr.Basil Davidson a writer and historian of international renown,who has been concerned with the study of Africa for more then 50 years.

We need to read what Mrs Dulce Almada Duarte has to say on nationalism and national consciousness. A freedom Fighter for her people.

How many of you have read the book? Buy it,read it then get back on line and see how Fortunate & UnFortunate we have been thru the centuries under the Colonialist Master of the past in which some Caboverdianos were involved.

I am sad about all that has been wrong and how we had to do somethings for our freedom,but today I am very
We the people of the Republic of Cabo Verde, are working in order to form a more perfect Union,establish Justice,insure domestic Tranquility,provide for the common defence,produce the general Welfare,and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,do ordain and establish our Constitution for the Republic of Cabo Verde.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

THE REPUBLIC of CABO VERDE

1. "Cabo Verde shall be a sovereign,unitary and democratic Republic which shall guarantee the respect for dignity of the human person and shall recognize the inviolability and inalienability of Human Rights as the foundation of the whole human community,peace and justice"

If we try to find all who are guilty of some mistake of the past none of us will see the light of day. For we are all guilty of sin.

Let us move forward by the Grace of Deus and to never make those mistakes again.But if we stay with hate and retribution it will be hell ongoing for all. As my dear beloved Jesus would say I forgive all of you.

Repent and make our penance turn away from the sins of the past.
Rewnew our minds for the transformation.

I say The 3 R's
take the Responsibility for Rigtheousness in our Renaissance.
The future is in the hands of our youth let it be love & Morabeza & sober minded
Nos Terra
Deus Ku Nos.
Grande Focus Vida de Universe Forca Superior Astral.
Boa Pas
Shalom
As-Salaam-Alaikum
Peace Be Unto you
Manu Selah Omo-Wali Mateus