Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires came last month in the circle of African presidents of ten or more years in power, until now twenty, is also one of the ten oldest presidents in Africa today cumpleindo 77.
Pedro Pires is linked to the Movement for the Liberation of Cape Verde, one of the smaller African nations composed of a few volcanic islands and an estimated half a million people since its inception and this was its tendency socialist from the time of Almircal Cabral when he was a single motion with that of Guinea. Pires has led the PAICV and in 2001 became president of the country. 
Cape Verde was inhabited from the beginning by its Portuguese colonizers from land was the slave trade because of its strategic location west of the coast of tierrras firm to America, in its heyday in the sixteenth century the then Ribeira Grande capital was raided twice by the Sir Francis Drake, another prominent person to visit this small nation was Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century there were said to have made important discoveries.
The present capital of Cape Verde is Praia, founded in 1615, living there about a quarter of the population of the country, a country with more inhabitants outside its territory (counting their descendants), Cape Verde highly dependent on the shipment of household-level resources from abroad but it is encouraging tourism and foreign investment.
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