It is with great sadness that we inform that on the night of October 18, 2025, the great people’s fighter, militant, and one of the founders of the League of the Poor Peasants-NE, Comrade Paulo João da Silva, passed away at the age of 72, after nearly 5 months of hospitalization due to a heart attack. During this period, his health condition worsened, a situation aggravated by the poor conditions of public health care in the state, until Paulo João finally rested after having resisted and fought, just as he did throughout his life. Comrade Paulo João leaves behind family, friends, and fellow comrades of struggle, to whom we extend our fraternal solidarity and support.

Comrade Paulo João, in addition to being a prominent activist of the League of the Poor Peasants of the Northeast, was also one of its founders in the Pernambuco region. He played a key role in the struggle for the liberation of peasant leader José Ricardo, in the Peoples Division of the Santa Luzia Farm, and in the 1st Congress of the League of the Poor Peasants in the Northeast. Paulo João fought tooth and nail against the goons of the Catende Sugar Mill, the attempts at criminalization by the Pernambuco Military Police, and the opportunism of the MST and FETAPE leadership with the deceitful “collective management” of the Harmonia Cooperative in Catende.