Activist Clara Charf, widow of .
The death occurred due to natural causes, according to Vera Vieira, executive director of the Associação Mulheres pela Paz, an organization created and founded by Charf.
The activist was hospitalized in a hospital in São Paulo and had been intubated. The wake is scheduled for this Monday, from 6pm to 9pm, at Cemitério São Paulo, in Pinheiros. Afterwards, the body will be taken to the Vila Alpina Crematorium.
“She has had a history of fighting for a century,” says Vera. “She was an incessant fighter for peace, for women’s rights, for human rights. It is an irreparable loss.”
Born in Maceió in 1925, Clara was a member of the PCB (Brazilian Communist Party). There, he met Marighella, who would later be considered the nation’s number one enemy.
With the 1964 coup, he lived in hiding and joined the ALN (Ação Libertadora Nacional), an armed struggle organization founded by Marighella.
After the murder of her partner by the dictatorship in 1969, Clara went into exile in , where she lived for ten years. He returned to Brazil in 1979 with the Amnesty Law and joined the .
Later, she helped found the Women for Peace Association, whose work began with the selection of 52 Brazilian women to make up a collective nomination of a thousand women for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.
Granddaughter of Marighella and president of Funarte (National Arts Foundation), Maria Mariguella describes Clara as a “feminist of all times, activist in defense of human rights, justice and freedoms”.
In her words, she was “an inspiring woman and inspiration for so many of us”, “a singular and pulsating existence, as life should be”.
On social media, the president (PT) paid tribute and said that, with the activist’s death, “Brazil loses an extraordinary woman. And I lose a companion on many journeys.”
“Courageous, generous, combative and of great political maturity, Clara lived in exile, faced dictatorship and incessantly defended democracy. She went through her century of life with a beautiful flexibility of someone who knew how to understand the new without abandoning her principles, of someone who looked at the world with lucidity and an open heart”, wrote the president.
“I lived with Clara for more than 40 years. I learned a lot from her about politics, solidarity, resistance and humanity. And today I say goodbye to her with affection, respect and gratitude to this great Brazilian who did so much for our country and for all of us who were lucky enough to have her around.”
Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Farming, stated that Clara Charf was one of the “greatest left-wing activists in Brazil” and a “political reference”, with an “immense legacy”.
Representative Ivan Valente (-SP) classified her as “kind and courageous” and highlighted the “100 years of struggle for socialism and social justice”.
Author of Marighella’s biography, journalist Mário Magalhães said that Clara Charf was “one of the most fascinating, generous and fearless women Brazil has known.”
Member of the Women for Peace Association, Fernanda Pompeu said that the activist “was the size of her 100 years old”.
“It’s difficult to say that she has faded away. Because a life with such luminosity remains engraved on everyone who had the enormous privilege of learning from her.”
