Enéas Carneiro

Enéas Ferreira Carneiro (Portuguese: [eˈnɛ(jj)ɐs feˈʁejɾɐ kaʁˈnejɾu]; November 5, 1938 — May 6, 2007) was a Brazilian polymath, cardiologist, physicist, mathematician, professor, writer, military serviceman and politician. He represented the state of São Paulo in the National Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of the National Congress) and ran for presidency three times. He was founder and leader of the nationalist and conservative Party of the Reconstruction of the National Order (PRONA), which was usually seen as being far-right. Although Enéas rejected the left-right dichotomy, as they were "sides of the same coin", defining himself only as a nationalist.

Biography

Eneás Ferreira Carneiro was born at Rio Branco, Acre, located in Brazil's far west, in 1938, under extreme poverty. His parents were the barber Eustáquio José Carneiro and the housewife Mina Ferreiro Carneiro. Eustáquio Carneiro passed away when Eneás was nine years old, prompting him to start working from this young age. With an slightly improved financial condition, Eneás and his mother moved to Belém and started living in a shack eating flour and coffee.

Eneás was married to Jamile Augusta Ferreira, a fellow student of the School of Medicine and Surgery of Rio de Janeiro. The couple had one daughter, Janete, after both finished their studies at the School of Medicine. Five years later, Eneás had another daughter, Gabriela, with his union with the speech therapist Selene Maria. This relationship was also not long-running. Eneás, around 1982, married the prosecutor Adriana Lorandi, having his third daughter, Lígia. The third marriage of Enéas was also not long, since the cardiologist had to give away much property to create PRONA.