Either way he became a legend in his own time. Thursday on the Progressive Radio News Hour, James Petras reported information he received from a reliable Argentina source saying he’s dead.

If so, he explained, he’ll be Africa’s greatest martyr since Congo’s Patrice Lumumba. After leading its independence struggle successfully in June 1960, a CIA coup ousted him 10 weeks later.

Patrice Lumumba
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