Fernando Gabeira
Fernando Paulo Nagle Gabeira (born February 17, 1943 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian politician, writer and journalist. He has been a federal deputy from the State of Rio de Janeiro since 1995.
He is best known for his book O que é isso, companheiro? (which would be literally translated as "What is that, comrade?", but could also mean "What are you doing, comrade?"). Written in 1979, the book is about the armed resistance to the Military Dictatorship in Brazil, joined by Gabeira, and particularly describes the 1969 episode of the kidnapping of the American Ambassador Charles Burke Elbrick, in which Gabeira took part. The book was turn into a movie in 1997, titled Four Days in September in English.
Gabeira was also one of the founding members of the Green Party of Brazil, but has left the group in 2002 to integrate the Workers' Party. Recently he rejoined the Green Party, due to his disappointment with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government, and also because of his criticism on the way the Worker's Party was dealing with its remaining far-leftist members.
Gabeira is a cousin of Leda Nagle, a famous Brazilian TV host and journalist. Gabeira has lived many years away from Brazil, in order to escape from Military Dictatorship, and returned to his country in 1979. Just after his return to Brazil, a photo of Gabeira wearing a very small bathing suit on Ipanema beach became a national scandal. Many years later, Gabeira revealed that his scandalous bathing suit was indeed the bottom part of one of Leda Nagle's bikini.
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