Word: teixeira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to find the immediate provocation for the brutal murder. The day before, O Momento had published a story by Reporter Gurgel aimed at Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, governor of the state of Goiaz and the newspaper's prime political enemy. It charged that Pedro Arantes, whom the governor had appointed head of the Electric Energy Commission, was running the state's drastic power rationing to suit himself. The paper printed its attack under the headline HE CAME AND PRODUCED LIGHT. Soon after the story appeared, Arantes met the reporter on the street, slapped him across the face...
That was a warning, but no one expected the bloodshed that followed next day. Outrage flared throughout the state and nation. Students went on strike. Bar and press associations demanded justice. Only then did Governor Teixeira publicly disclaim responsibility for the murder and order, Arantes removed from his post. But the power commissioner and his gunmen had already left town...