To go along with Valmiki’s story, here are pictures and an article sent by Patrice Riemens found in my archives which I reproduced on Goanet in 2008.
Handsome devil he was indeed. Thus able to charm the idle wives of Margao business men as Valmiki writes: > Some wealthy businessmen enjoyed > failsafe insurance against high-handedness of colonial > officialdom -- thanks to their idle and bored wives back home. Wrote Patrice: And I found a picture, for what it is worth: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2279/1507998440_e2002b7577_o.jpg belonging to the Chaves.Antiga blog: http://chavesantiga.blogs.sapo.pt/171915.html Roland. Toronto. > On Dec 5, 2021, at 3:33 PM, Goanet Reader <goanetrea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (Author's note: Though a bit long, this instalment is on one > of colonial Goa's shadiest actors, and a wee bit more!) > > Portugal had an able terror counterpart in Goa: PIDE (Polícia > Internacional e de Defesa do Estado), the dreaded secret > service police. It was brought to Goa by Governor-General > Brigadier Paulo Bénard Guedes (1952-58). > >
