Souza, Herbert Jose de

Souza, Herbert Jose de
▪ 1998

      Brazilian social activist (b. Nov. 13, 1935, Bocaiúva, Braz.—d. Aug. 9, 1997, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.), was an outspoken champion of the poor and was nominated in 1994 for the Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts to improve their living standards and to combat hunger. Souza was in his 20s when he helped to found the Acao Popular, a Marxist group that arose from a radical branch of the Roman Catholic Church. A 1964 military coup in Brazil drove him into exile, first to Chile and then to Canada, Sweden, and France. He returned to Brazil under a general amnesty in 1979 and founded an institute for economic and social studies—one of the country's first nongovernmental organizations—which performed research on a wide range of social issues. Souza came to national prominence in 1992 when his Movement to Restore Ethics to Politics helped unseat the corrupt Pres. Fernando Collor de Mello. Souza then launched his campaign against hunger, a broad-based effort to donate food to the poor; it became a cause célèbre, and many of Brazil's most prominent citizens participated. Souza also worked to raise AIDS consciousness. A hemophiliac, in 1986 he was infected with HIV through a contaminated blood transfusion; he was one of the first Brazilians to reveal publicly that he was HIV-positive. In 1993 Souza's image was tarnished, however, when it was learned that he had knowingly allowed his AIDS advocacy group to accept a $58,000 donation from racketeers. Souza developed AIDS in 1995, which severely eroded his frail health.

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