Orlando Castro

Orlando Castro was born on October 30, 1954 in Nova Lisboa, Huambo, Angola.
Journalist - Professional Portfolio No. 480th, Deputy Director of the Angolan newspaper Folha 8.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: Degree in History
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN PORTUGAL Journalist and coordinator of the Economics Section of the "Jornal de Notícias" between 1991 and 2009. Editor of the Economics Section of the newspaper "The First of January" between 1988 and 1991. Editor-in-Chief of RIT - Textile Industry Magazine between 1980 and 1988. Editor and Head of the Delegation in Porto of the weekly "The Country" between 1977 and 1979.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Angola 1973/1975) Editor of the daily "The Province of Angola"; Editor and Editor of the magazine "Hello! Good Night"; Collaborator of Huambo Radio Club; Employee of Huambo Commercial Broadcaster; Collaborator of the bi-weekly "The Plateau".
Author of the books: "Handcuffs of My Betrayal" (1975), "Azores - Volcanic Realities" (1995) "Yesterday, Today... and Tomorrow?". "Memories of Memory" (2001). "Alto Hama - Chronicles (says)betrayed" (2006). "Cabinda – yesterday protectorate, today colony, tomorrow Nation» (2011). Co-author of the 16 volumes of the collection "Colonial War – History in the First Person", distributed in 2011 by "Jornal de Notícias" and "Diário de Notícias". "António Marinho e Pinto - Mudar Portugal" (2015).
«Egosism (the earthquake of maximum magnitude that reached my ego). Poems written between the end of 1975 (departure from Angola) and 1980" (2022)