Fernando "Cobo" Pereira is a major in the military of São Tomé and Príncipe and Acting President of São Tomé and Príncipe.
He led a coup against the elected government of Fradique de Menezes on July 16, 2003, while the latter was out of the country.
[1] Pereira "is of mixed Cape Verdian and Angolan descent.
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