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Honório de Freitas Guimarães

Honório de Freitas Guimarães (8 July 1902 – 1 February 1968) was a member of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). He used the aliases M., Martins, Nico, and Henrique Vieira de Sousa. Born into a family of farmers and sugar mill owners, Guimarães was descended from Brazilian nobility. During his adolescence, he studied at Eton College, and upon returning to Brazil, he became involved with socialism and communism under the influence of his first wife, who had been part of the intellectual circles in Paris at the time. Guimarães joined the PCB in 1931 and played a role in planning the Brazilian communist uprising of 1935, which ultimately failed. Arrested in 1938–1939, he was released in 1945 following amnesty for political prisoners. Guimarães did not rejoin the PCB and died in a car accident at the age of 65.

He participated in the execution of the teenager Elza Fernandes, strangled with a clothesline and buried inside a burlap sack. Provided by Wikipedia