Pedro de Castro van Dúnem, also known as Comandante Loy (9 February 1942[1] – 23 September 1997), was an Angolan politician.
He served in various leading functions within the MPLA during the Angolan liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule and within the country's government after achieving independence.
At the end of 1962, he fled Portuguese rule and arrived in January 1963 in Leopoldville, Congo, where he took refuge and, in June 1963, he was elected into the leadership of the Youth of MPLA (JMPLA).
[2] In November 2011, the Banco Angolano de Investimentos opened a branch office named "Comandante Loy" in their banking school in Luanda barrio Morro Bento, Belas municipality.
[6] There is a "Comandande Loy" Consortium which is building housing for veterans of the liberation war in Viana and Icolo e Bengo.