1. Rubens Paiva was the son of Jaime Almeida Paiva, a lawyer and farmer, and Araci Beyrodt.
12 Facts About Rubens Paiva
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Rubens Paiva was married to Maria Lucrecia 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.
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Rubens Paiva joined the "Oil is ours" nationalist campaign for state monopoly on oil in Brazil as a member of the student council.
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Shortly after the coup, Rubens Paiva voluntarily left Brazil for self-exile in Yugoslavia and in Paris, France.
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Rubens 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 rebels' family members to receive letters from the exiled in Brazil and abroad.
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Rubens Paiva was not part of armed guerrilla, but rather aided people deemed subversive by the military dictatorship.
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Rubens Paiva founded, alongside editor Fernando Gasparian, the newspaper Jornal de Debates and was the last director of Ultima Hora in Sao Paulo, before Samuel Wainer sold it to Octavio Frias' Grupo Folha.
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When returning from a trip to Santiago, Chile, where he had been helping the exiled daughter of his friend Bocaiuva Cunha, Rubens 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.
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However, all the information collected about Rubens Paiva was sent to the headquarters of the intelligence of StB, because that acquired content, sooner or later, could be useful for the Czech Communist Party.
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Rubens Paiva is known as a radical leftist congressman, but he does not call himself a communist.
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Rubens Paiva wrote that he was convinced he could use the report to carry out active operations involving Paiva, to exploit his role in the Brazilian parliament.
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Rubens Paiva is portrayed by Selton Mello in the 2024 film I'm Still Here, directed by Walter Salles.