Overview
- Her death was confirmed by the Associação Mulheres pela Paz, which said she died of natural causes after days of hospitalization and intubation in São Paulo.
- President Lula and Bahia Governor Jerônimo Rodrigues issued tributes praising her courage and political legacy.
- She joined the Brazilian Communist Party at 21, took part in the ALN, was arrested, and had her political rights revoked in 1964.
- After Carlos Marighella was killed in 1969, she lived about a decade in exile in Cuba and returned in 1979 under the Amnesty law, later helping to build the Workers' Party.
- She founded and led the Associação Mulheres pela Paz and coordinated Brazil's 2005 'Thousand Women for the Nobel Peace Prize' initiative, with a wake set for Monday evening at Cemitério São Paulo followed by cremation at Vila Alpina.