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Celso Daniel | |
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| 20th Mayor of Santo André | |
| In office 1 January 2002 – 18 January 2002 | |
| Vice Mayor | João Avamileno |
| Preceded by | Newton Brandão |
| Succeeded by | João Avamileno |
| 18th Mayor of Santo André | |
| In office 1 January 1989 – 1 January 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Newton Brandão |
| Succeeded by | Newton Brandão |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Celso Augusto Daniel April 16, 1951 Santo André, SP, Brazil |
| Died | January 18, 2002 (aged 50) Juquitiba, SP, Brazil |
| Manner of death | Assassination by gunshots |
| Political party | PT (1988–2002) |
| Spouse | Miriam Belchior |
Celso Augusto Daniel (April 16, 1951 – January 18, 2002) was the mayor in 2002 for the third time of the city of Santo André in São Paulo, Brazil, as a representative of the Workers' Party (PT). He was kidnapped and murdered in the same year.[1]
A civil engineer who graduated in 1973, from the Engenharia Mauá School, in São Caetano do Sul, he followed an academic career and obtained a master's degree in public administration from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP) and a doctorate in political science from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-SP).[2] He acted later as a teacher in both universities. As mayor he was connected to the United Nations Urban Management Programme.[3]
Celso Daniel's murder has not been properly solved by the local authorities, and the conclusions obtained by the investigations are still under dispute; the criminals who kidnapped him have been arrested but theories about their motivation for the crime vary from suggestions that it was a botched kidnapping attempt caused by a misunderstanding of the mayor's identity to theories that the crime was politically motivated and the killers were actually paid by figures of Daniel's own political party, PT. Since the beginning of the investigation, seven witnesses have been found dead.
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- ^ Brasil, CPDOC-Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação História Contemporânea do. "CELSO AUGUSTO DANIEL". CPDOC - Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-12-09.
- ^ "UN-HABITAT.:. Promote pro-poor land and housing | Press releases | Tragic loss of Mayor Celso Daniel of Santo André, Brazil, friend of the urban poor". mirror.unhabitat.org. Retrieved 2019-12-09.