Biography
Fernando Gabeira is a writer, journalist and former Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro (1995-2011). Born in Juíz de Fora, Minas Gerais, lives in Rio de Janeiro since 1963. He has two daughters, Tami and Maya Gabeira. He distinguished himself early in his career as an editor of "Jornal do Brasil", where he worked from 1964 to 1968. Writing colleagues said that the striking style of Gabeira's texts could be recognized even on notes. In the late 1960s, he joined the armed struggle against the military dictatorship. He was arrested, tortured and exiled.
In ten years of exile, he's been in several countries, such as Algeria, Cuba, Chile and Sweden. He witnessed in Chile, in 1973, the military coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. Later, it would portray the fall and the murder of Allende on a script for Swedish TV. In Sweden, where he spent most of his time in exile, he worked in journalism, mainly on Radio Sweden, even as a subway driver in Stockholm. With the amnesty, he returned to Brazil at the end of 1979. In the following years, Gabeira dedicated himself to an intense literary production, constructing the first critical analyzes of the armed struggle and boosting in Brazil subjects such as individual freedoms and ecology. Books like "O Que é Isso, Companheiro?" (1979), "O Crepúsculo do Macho" (1980), "Entradas e Bandeiras" (1981), "Hóspede da Utopia" (1981), "Nós que Amávamos tanto a Revolução" (1985) and "Vida Alternativa" (1985), set new horizons in the field of mentalities and put in the limelight a series of old concepts of Brazilian life.
In 1986, he applied to the state government for the Green Party (Partido Verde, PV), where he was one of the founding members. His political and journalistic work was notable in several other important events of national life, particularly those related to the environmental issue, such as the investigation of the Chico Mendes murder, the banning of the Angra I nuclear power plant due to security problems and the world meeting of the indigenous people in Altamira, Pará. In 1988, he launched the book "Greenpeace: Green Guerrilla of Peace", a reportage that presented to Brazil the philosophy and backstage of the largest environmental organization in the world. In 1989, was candidate to President of the Republic. Gabeira was already the most visible leadership of a new public opinion, more scholarly, more attentive to environmental, cultural and ethical issues. In the same year, as a journalist, he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In 1994, he was elected Federal Deputy for the first time. From 1998 to 2002 he was one of the most influential members of the National Congress. In 2006, he was the top-ranked candidate in the state. He has served four consecutive terms and changed his party on several occasions.
In 2011, at the end of the fourth term, he decided to abandon politics. Defender of the Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato), says that the operation only opened the decadence of the Brazilian party system. Since 2013, he has returned to journalism as a presenter of Fernando Gabeira (2013), a TV show of interviews and reports, from GloboNews channel, in addition to write a weekly column since 2014 for "Jornal O Globo", a decision that can be seen as the closing of a cycle.
