Sivuca

José Guilherme Godinho Ferreira (September 22, 1930 — August 15, 2021), also known as Sivuca, was a Brazilian police officer and politician.

Biography

A member of the Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq, he was one of those responsible for the death of the bandit Cara de Cavalo. Many of the members of the Escuderia Le Cocq, whose objective was to repress crime, executed bandits over time, which led to them being given the acronym EM, in popular terms, referring to the death squad. “A good bandit is a dead bandit!” was the successful slogan of the electoral campaign used by José Guilherme Godinho, Sivuca, when he was Police Chief of Rio de Janeiro, to be elected State Deputy in the mid-80s (1986), and public posts in the center of RJ had posters with this slogan.slogan.

In 2021, Sivuca died at the age of ninety in Rio de Janeiro, due to complications related to COVID-19, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.