The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil)
'Leader of the Peasant League of Sapé, in Paraíba. On April 2, 1962, he was shot by a group of landowners and their gunmen' (Calendário Histórico dos Trabalhadores. São Paulo: MST, Setor de Educação. 3a. edição, 1999, p. 33). See PEASANT LEAGUES.