Mano Brown pays tribute to Marighella on Facebook.
The rapper, who had already paid tribute to the guerrilla fighter with a song and music video, recalled that November 4th is the anniversary of Marighella's death, assassinated by the repressive apparatus of the military dictatorship.
This Saturday, November 4th, marks 40 years since the assassination of the man considered the "number 1 enemy" of the Brazilian military regime: the political activist and guerrilla fighter Carlos Marighella.
Loved by some and hated by others, Marighella, who was one of the main organizers of the armed struggle in Brazil, was honored by none other than Mano Brown, considered today one of the leading exponents of Brazilian rap.
Brown, who had already honored the guerrilla fighter with the song and music video "Mil faces de um homem leal" (A Thousand Faces of a Loyal Man), commemorated his death on Facebook: "November 04th is marked by the assassination of Carlos Marighella, a political guerrilla fighter during the military dictatorship in Brazil. RIP," the rapper posted.
Mano Brown is even being considered to play Marighella in a movie.
Carlos Marighella died in an ambush orchestrated by the dictatorship's police in 1969, on Alameda Casa Branca, in São Paulo. In 1996, the Ministry of Justice recognized the State's responsibility for his death, and his partner began receiving a state pension. In 2012, the Minister of Justice, José Eduardo Cardozo, officially granted Marighella a posthumous amnesty.