# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lucio-lara
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:29:22.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lucio-lara"
name: "Lúcio Lara"
slug: "lucio-lara"
description: "Lúcio Rodrigo Leite Barreto de Lara, also known by the pseudonym Tchiweka, was an Angolan revolutionary, physicist-mathematician, politician, anti-colonial ideologist and one of the founding members of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). He served as General Secretary of the MPLA during the Angolan War of Independence and Angolan Civil War. Lara, a founding member of the MPLA, led the first MPLA members into Luanda on 8 November 1974. He swore in Agostinho Neto as the first president of the country."
tagline: "Angolan politician (1929-2016)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1929-04-09"
deathDate: "2016-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.60040133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Лусіо Лара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "لوسيو لارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "لوسيو لارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Лусіа Лара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF_%CE%9B%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B1"
    title: "Λούσιο Λάρα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "لوسیو لارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90"
    title: "ლუსიო ლარა"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BE"
    title: "Лара, Лусио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Lara"
    title: "Lúcio Lara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1479462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump