Sérgio Santos wrote that Octavio Guedes had recalled a story about Benedita da Silva on Globo News. As a child, she accompanied her mother, who worked as a laundress and delivered clothes to the house of Juscelino Kubitschek, where, according to Santos, it was common to enter through the back. Benedita saw Márcia, Juscelino's daughter, with a doll, but she never had one. Santos also stated that the former president was assassinated by the military dictatorship in 1976. Years later, Benedita and Márcia worked together as federal deputies in the 1988 National Constituent Assembly. Santos recounted that, upon being elected for the first time and reuniting with Márcia in the Assembly, Benedita mentioned the doll; however, Márcia barely remembered the toy. The two hugged each other emotionally, despite having opposing ideologies, he reported. Santos described that period as a time when politics was not dominated by barbarism. Regarding Sunday, October 4, 2026, he stated that Benedita was left out of the Senate for Rio de Janeiro after the election of two far-right candidates, who, according to him, rejected everything she represented. #História #Política #Memória (translated)
