Paiva, Rubens

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Name	Paiva, Rubens Gender: M
Birthname	Rubens Beyrodt Paiva
born on	26 December 1929 at 22:20 (= 10:20 PM )
Place	Santos, Brazil, 23s5739, 46w2001
Timezone	-03 h3w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	04°49' 21°24 Asc. 01°50'

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Rubens Paiva
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Biography

Brazilian civil engineer and politician who, as a Congressman at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, opposed the implementation of a military dictatorship in Brazil in 1968. Due to his involvement with subversive activities, he was apprehended by the military forces and subsequently tortured and murdered.

In 1952 he married Maria Lucrécia Eunice Facciolla Paiva, with whom he had five children, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Vera Silvia Facciolla Paiva, Maria Eliana Facciolla Paiva, Ana Lucia Facciolla Paiva and Maria Beatriz Facciolla Paiva.

He graduated from the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, in São Paulo, with a BA in Civil Engineering in 1954. He joined the "Oil is ours" nationalist campaign as a member of the student council. During his college years, he was the president of the Academic Center of the Civil Engineering Students and vice-president for the São Paulo Union of Students.

Paiva's political career began to rise in October 1962, when he was elected Congressman for the State of São Paulo by the Brazilian Labour Party. He took office in February of the next year and became a member of the Congressional Committee created to examine the activities of both the Institute for Social Research and Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais) and the Brazilian Institute for Democratic Action (Instituto Brasileiro de Ação Democrática). Those two organizations were under the suspicion of funding commentators and writers who warned about the "red menace" in Brazil. The Committee also accused some high-ranked military officers of receiving bribery from the two aforementioned foreign entities, in a scheme that supposedly financed the upcoming military coup d'état on 31 March 1964. The Investigation Committee however, never presented any proof of such allegations. After the Brazilian government overthrown in 1964, Paiva, among other politicians, had his congressional position revoked by the junta on 10 April 1964.

Shortly after the coup, Rubens Paiva voluntarily left Brazil for self-exile in Yugoslavia and in Paris, France. Nine months later, he was supposed to fly to Buenos Aires for a meeting with the deposed left-wing leaders João Goulart and Leonel Brizola. During the lay over in Rio de Janeiro though, he said to the flight hostess that he would be momentarily leaving the plane to buy cigarettes. Instead, he boarded a flight to São Paulo, heading to his house, where his wife and children lived. Paiva then moved with his family to Rio de Janeiro and returned to work as a civil engineer, while continuing to collaborate with and assist exiled left-wing militants and guerrilla members inside and outside the Brazilian territory.

Rubens Paiva founded, alongside editor Fernando Gasparian, the newspaper Jornal de Debates and was the last director of Última Hora in São Paulo, before Samuel Weiner sold it to Octávio Frias' Grupo Folha.

When returning from a trip to Santiago, Chile, where he had been helping the exiled guerrillera daughter of his friend Bocaiúva Cunha, Paiva was mistakenly identified as a contact of "Adriano", which was the contact of Carlos Lamarca, then the top name on the most wanted terrorists list kept by Brazil's dictatorship regime.

Hoping to catch "Adriano" and thus reach Lamarca, the military forces raided Paiva's house in Rio de Janeiro and arrested him on 20 January 1971. After the raid, Paiva was reported missing.

Eunice, Paiva's wife, was also arrested during the same operation and remained incommunicable for twelve days. Eliana, one of the couple's daughters, then a 15-year-old young woman, was in the same prison for 24 hours. Eunice and Eliana were interrogated in the same DOI-CODI room where suspected communist agents were tortured. They claim to have seen blood, the feared pau de arara and the portrait of Paiva in the tokens of recognition. They also said they heard the screams from prisoners apparently being tortured.

While his wife and daughter were being interrogated, Paiva was transferred to the Destacamento de Operações Internas (Department of Internal Operations). Though his body was never found, accounts given decades later to the National Truth Commission by an Army doctor and former military officers revealed that Paiva died on the second day after his arrest from injuries related to torture in the Army barrack where he had been held.

In a 1971 letter, Eunice Paiva wrote, based on accounts by other political prisoners, that her husband was tortured on the same day she was arrested at the III Aerial Zone, located near Santos Dumont Airport, then under the command of João Paulo Burnier, also accused of torturing and killing Stuart Angel.

Rubens Paiva is portrayed by Selton Mello in the 2024 film Ainda Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here), directed by Walter Salles, which had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim. The screenplay was written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, and adapted from the non-fiction memoir book Ainda Estou Aqui by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Rubens' and Eunice's son. In September 2024, the film was selected as the Brazilian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• parent->child relationship with Paiva, Marcelo Rubens (born 1 May 1959)

• spouse relationship with Paiva, Eunice (born 7 November 1929). Notes: Married 1952-1971

Events

• Crime : Arrest 20 January 1971
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• Death by Homicide 21 January 1971 (Age 41)
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Source Notes

Birth certificate in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file.

Categories

• Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs

• Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted

• Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Five)

• Family : Parenting : Kids - Noted

• Lifestyle : Home : Expatriate (Self-exile in Yugoslavia and France)

• Passions : Criminal Victim : Assault/ Battery victim

• Passions : Criminal Victim : Homicide victim

• Passions : Criminal Victim : Torture victim

• Vocation : Engineer : Civil

• Vocation : Politics : Labor unions

• Vocation : Politics : Public office (Congressman at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies)