Word: democrito
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Editor Fernandes had incurred the enmity of Interventor (appointed governor) of Pernambuco Etelvino Lins when he printed the full story of the murder of Democrito de Souza (TIME, March 19), a student leader. In his own garden, Fernandes was knifed one night by a gang of capangas (paid cutthroats...
...Recife, white-suited, perspiring students milled about on the steaming cobblestones in front of the Pernambuco Daily. They were celebrating Brazil's "new freedom" (TIME, March 5). Suddenly, shots cracked out from nearby windows. Nine students fell wounded. The secretary of the Students' Union, Democrito de Souza, lay dead. Soldiers nabbed one gunman, who claimed he had been given his revolver by civil police, told to fire on the students...
Indignation swept restive Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro, the powerful National Students' Union met angrily. Cried Byronic young Newsman Carlos Lacerda: "I accuse Getulio Vargas and Agamenon Magalhaes [new Minister of Justice] of the assassination of the student Democrito. Under the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas, youth has only one right, which is to die for its country. This it is doing in Italy. Youth comes to the streets today to demand another right: a Government which represents the people of Brazil. . . . And if this right is denied it, it still has, like the student of Recife, the right...
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