Zuzu Angel

Zuleika Angel Jones (June 5, 1921 – April 14, 1976), better known as Zuzu Angel, was a Brazilian fashion designer, who became famous for opposing the Brazilian military dictatorship after the forced disappearance of her son, Stuart. She was also the mother of journalist Hildegard Angel.

Life and career Zuzu Angel was born on June 5, 1921, in Curvelo, Brazil. While still a child, she moved to Belo Horizonte, later living in Bahia. Bahian culture and colors significantly influenced the style of Angel's creations. In 1947, she went to live in Rio de Janeiro, then Brazil's capital city. He was known by his fellow guerrillas by the codenames "Paulo" and "Henrique". He married fellow militant Sônia Maria Morais Angel Jones, and the dismissal of then Minister of the Air Force, Márcio de Sousa Melo.

In 2014, the involvement of agents of the military repression regime in Brazil in her death was confirmed. A former agent named Cláudio Antônio Guerra, wrote the book Memories of a Dirty War, in which he details several crimes in which he either participated or knew of, revealing incriminating details about the Riocentro May Day Attack, the death of Zuzu Angel, and others.

Guerra, who was director of the Department of Political and Social Order, known as DOPS, a department notorious for its practice of torture, extrajudicial killings and forced disappearance, pointed out to the Commission that Army Colonel Freddie Perdigão, an infamous torturer and state agent of repression, was startlingly present at the scene as the accident happened. In a photo taken at the scene of the accident that killed Zuzu, Freddie Perdigão is seen close to the car, as if a passer-by. The photo had been taken on April 14, 1976, and was published by the press, but Perdigão's identity and significance were not connected to the case until Guerra identified him to the members of the Commission.

Homages and cultural references Stuart Angel is the patron of Juventude Revolucionária 8 de Outubro, MR-8's youth branch. MR-8 is now a faction of the Brazilian Democratic Movement.

Stuart's probable death by asphyxiation and carbon monoxide poisoning was referred in the lyrics of the song "Cálice", written by Chico Buarque and Gilberto Gil. In homage to Zuzu Angel, and other mothers who were unable to bury their children, Buarque wrote the song "Angélica" in 1977.

In 2006, the events surrounding Stuart's death were dramatised in the film Zuzu Angel, directed by Sérgio Rezende. The movie, in which Daniel de Oliveira plays Stuart, is about Zuzu's struggle to find out the truth of her son's death.

The Tunnel Dois Irmãos, which connects Gávea to São Conrado, the same place where Zuzu's car crashed, was renamed after her.

In 2015, Angel was commemorated on her 94th birthday with a Google Doodle featuring a motif adapted from the prints she used in her designs.