[2] An entrepreneur in the agricultural and weaving sectors, with Tecelagem Parahyba [pt], he played an important role in his mandate as senator during redemocratization.

[3] Severo died in a helicopter crash off the coast of Angra dos Reis, in the south of Rio de Janeiro state, which was also carrying Ulysses Guimarães.

During a trip to Rio Grande do Sul, he took on the defense of local shoe manufacturers, who were suffering from the imposition of import surcharges by the US government, while at the same time advocating the search for alternative markets.

[14] He identified distortions in the economy and society resulting from the new direction taken by government policy after 1967, highlighting the concentration of income, regional inequalities and the deterioration of living conditions in large urban centers.

[8] With this nationalist vision, in the same year he stopped the purchase of the Consul [pt] refrigerator factory in Santa Catarina by the Dutch group Philips.

[15][16] Because of his ideological views, hostility towards Severo Gomes increased in some of the country's largest newspapers, notably O Estado de S. Paulo and Jornal do Brasil.

[2] With his political positions, his divergence with another government current of thought deepened, which was evidenced at the end of May when the ministers of Finance, Mário Henrique Simonsen, Planning and General Coordination, João Paulo dos Reis Veloso, and Agriculture, Alysson Paolinelli.

[8][15] In December, when paranymphing a graduating class at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) in São José dos Campos, he insisted on the same themes and defended the debate on the "Brazilian model".

A participant in the Dictatorship's conspiratorial phase, Lousada had been linked to Admiral Sílvio Heck [pt], with whom he later had a falling out, and had established relations with the Costa e Silva and Garrastazu Médici governments.

After successive phone calls, the matter reached the president, who requested a report from the National Intelligence Service (SNI) and summoned the minister.

[24] He didn't run for re-election and in March 1991, he took over as São Paulo's Secretary of Science and Technology and Economic Development in the government of Luiz Antônio Fleury Filho (1991-1995), but stayed on for a short time, leaving in June because he didn't accept a fraud - overpricing - in the import of equipment from Israel for USP and the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), which had taken place at the end of governor Orestes Quércia's administration (1987-1991).

[8] Severo died on 12 October 1992, the victim of a helicopter crash in the region of Angra dos Reis, in the interior of the state of Rio de Janeiro, after returning from a weekend in the city.