His work in the 2002 presidential campaign for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was praised.
He also worked on the campaigns of Paulo Maluf, Miguel Arraes, and Ciro Gomes in Brazil, and of the Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho.
[1] In October 2004, he was arrested at an illegal cock fighting arena in the State of Rio de Janeiro.
Between June and July 2014, Odebrecht wired US$1,610,000 to the accounts of a company that the publicist had in Panama.
[3] Mendonça was born in Salvador and died on 16 August 2021 in São Paulo, at the age of 77, from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.