Carlos Marighella

Marighella was born on December 5th, 1911 in El Salvador city, Bahia state, Brazil. At the age of 18, while he was in the first year of the Polytechnic School in Salvador, he became a communist. From this moment on he always defended this politic line, in spite of his distance to the Brazilian Communist Party in 1964, due to difference of criteria. Marighella was completely in favor of the armed fight as the most effective way to get the freedom for his country. He defended this position in the First Conference of OLAS (Latin American Solidarity Organization) in 1967 in Havana.

Because of the activities he carried out against the regimen he was sent to prison and tortured in many occasions.

He was the leader of the National Freedom Action, one of the main revolutionary organizations in Brazil. At the same time he studied the fundamental affairs of the politics, economy and social matters of his country and the world.

He was victim of a police ambush in San Pedro and was brutally murdered in November 1969.