Who led the MPLA after 1962?

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Agostinho Neto became the leader of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in 1962. After escaping detention in Portugal and arriving in Morocco, he was elected president of the movement at the end of that year. Neto led the MPLA through the struggle for independence and served as the first president of Angola from 1975 until his death in 1979.123