
Tarrafal Concentration Camp in Chão Bom, Cabo Verde
The camp opened in 1936, when the first group of about 150 prisoners arrived from Lisbon: communists, anarchists, trade unionists and sailors who had mutinied against Salazar's dictatorship. The location was chosen deliberately. It was isolated, hot, short on clean water and plagued by malaria. Prisoners called it the "Campo da Morte Lenta," the Camp of Slow Death. More than 30 Portuguese inmates died here, among them Bento Gonçalves, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party. The most
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| Original publisher | Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places |
| Canonical URL | https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tarrafal-concentration-camp |
| Publication time | Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:00:00 -0500 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-11-07T09:17:38.226Z |
| Last seen | 2026-11-07T09:17:38.226Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher description |
| Excerpt method | Publisher-supplied description / RSS summary field. |
| Summary | None yet |
| Summary source text | description |
| Citation coverage | No WeSearch summary has been generated for this story yet. |
| Cluster | 7r9j2KbZ2n2f · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.