
José Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mendonça, known as Duda Mendonça (10 August 1944 – 16 August 2021) was a Brazilian advertising strategist and businessman.
Career
He owned a publicity agency called Duda Propaganda, where he became known for his political campaigns, managing more than 55 national campaigns, including mayoral, senatorial, gubernatorial and presidential races with more than 20 years of experience.
His work in the 2002 presidential campaign for
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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was praised. Duda was referred to as "the man who elected Lula", because he helped establish Lula as a more mainstream and moderate politician (''Lulinha paz e amor''), compared to the more radical left-wing approach of Lula’s 3 previous presidential campaigns.
He also worked on the campaigns of
Paulo Maluf
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,
Miguel Arraes
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Birth
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, and
Ciro Gomes
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Born in São Paulo but rais ...
in Brazil, and of the Portuguese Prime Minister
Pedro Passos Coelho
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.
He worked for
Óscar Iván Zuluaga
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's campaign in the
2014 Colombian presidential elections. He was allegedly paid with money illegally paid by the multinational
Odebrecht
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to Zuluaga's campaign. Between June and July 2014, Odebrecht wired US$1,610,000 to the accounts of a company that the publicist had in Panama.
Personal life
In October 2004, he was arrested at an illegal
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arena in the
State of Rio de Janeiro
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.
Mendonça was born in
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and died on 16 August 2021 in
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, at the age of 77, from
COVID-19
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, during the
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.
He was also suffering from a brain tumor.
References
1944 births
2021 deaths
20th-century Brazilian businesspeople
Politicians from Salvador, Bahia
21st-century Brazilian businesspeople
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro (state)
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