Herbert Eustaquio de Carvalho, known as Herbert Daniel, was a Brazilian writer, sociologist, journalist, and guerrilla, involved in the armed resistance to the military dictatorship that held power in Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
10 Facts About Herbert Daniel
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Herbert Daniel was born Herbert Eustaquio de Carvalho in 1946 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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Herbert Daniel studied medicine at the Federal University of Minas Gerais but did not graduate.
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Herbert Daniel was one of the few participants in the armed resistance to avoid prison and torture at the hands of the regime.
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Herbert Daniel self-exiled in 1974, moving to live with his partner in Portugal, where he returned to studying medicine, and in France, where he worked as a journalist.
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Herbert Daniel was the very last exile of the military regime to be pardoned.
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Herbert Daniel returned to Brazil in 1981, after the country began its redemocratization process.
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Herbert Daniel became active in the Workers' Party, then participated in the founding of the Brazilian Green Party alongside other Workers' Party dissidents.
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Herbert Daniel wrote several books, including Passagem para o Proximo Sonho, Meu Corpo Daria um Romance, and Vida antes da Morte.
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Herbert Daniel died in 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, of complications caused by AIDS.