News censored by the government were exchanged for excerpts from 'Os Lusíadas', a Portuguese poem from 1500, and recipes for cakes that were impossible to eat.
The newspaper O Estado de São Paulo was prevented from publishing more than 1,100 articles during the dictatorship period and published the same Portuguese poem 655 times.
Many times this was an attempt to inform about suspicious deaths of journalists (as Vladimir Herzog) and activists, as well as political crimes and torture. This number does not include articles that were never written due to self-censorship by the reporters.
The official government reported jornalist Herzog' murder as suicide. Jornalists Union of SP had a big judicial fight to clarify his death causes and after this, create a Prize to honor the Press profissionals of text, pictures and cartoons.
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