José Rodrigues Vitoriano (1918, Silves – 3 February 2006) was a Portuguese politician and a major figure in the struggle against the Portuguese fascist regime led by António Oliveira Salazar.
[1] Vitoriano started work at the age of 13 in a cork factory in Algarve and joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1941.
Meanwhile, in 1948, he had been imprisoned by the regime's political police, the PIDE,[1] only leaving jail in 1950.
[1] In January 1967, he became a clandestine, a usual method used by the members of the Communist Party to avoid detentions.
José Vitoriano died on 3 February 2006[1] in Lisbon.