Jobim claimed that he had been abducted in his own car and that he would be taken to "just after the Joatinga Bridge." Jobim's body was found on the morning of 24 March 24, less than a kilometer from the bridge, hung by the neck with a nylon rope by the branch of a tree. However, his feet touched the ground and his legs were bent, raising suspicion about the hypothesis of suicide that the authorities claimed. On 21 September 2018, the Brazilian government issued a new death certificate for Jobim, as a result of the work of the Special Commission on the Dead and Disappeared Politicians and the National Truth Commission of Brazil, which in its final report in December 2014, recommended that the country rectify the cause of death of people who died as a result of human rights violations, including forced disappearances. The new certificate, which gives 24 March 1979 as his date of death, acknowledges that Jobim was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered, giving his cause of death as "unnatural, violent death, caused by the Brazilian State, in the context of the systematic and widespread persecution of the population identified as political opponents to the dictatorial regime from 1964 to 1985". Publications History of Industries in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, 1940. Brazil in the Making, Macmillan Company, New York, 1943. References 1909 births 1979 deaths Ambassadors of Brazil to Colombia Ambassadors of Brazil to Ecuador Ambassadors of Brazil to the Holy See Ambassadors of Brazil to Paraguay Brazilian diplomats Brazilian economists Brazilian torture victims People from São Paulo People murdered in Brazil