Enéas Carneiro

He was a Brazilian politician, cardiologist, physicist, mathematician, teacher and writer. He became known with the catchphrase “My name is Enéas”. Enéas Ferreiro Carneiro was born in Rio Branco, Acre, on November 5, 1938. Son of barber Eustáquio José Carneiro, former employee of the former Coastal Navigation Company, and housewife Mina Ferreiro Carneiro. He began his studies at Grupo Escolar 24 de Janeiro in his hometown. He was fatherless at the age of nine. At the age of 19, he moved with his mother to Rio de Janeiro to enter the Army Health School and the Rio de Janeiro School of Medicine and Surgery, now UNIRIO, having passed first in both entrance exams. In 1959 he graduated as Third Assistant Sergeant of Anesthesia. He started working at the Army Central Hospital. In 1962 he entered the Mathematics and Physics course at the Faculty of Philosophy, Science and Letters of the State of Guanabara, currently UERJ. In 1965 he graduated in Medicine with a specialization in Cardiology. That same year he left the Army after 8 years of service, where he received the Marshal Hermes Medal, having performed more than 5 thousand anesthesias. In 1968 he graduated in Mathematics and Physics. That same year he started teaching Mathematics and Physics, preparing students for the university entrance exam. He founded a pre-university course, where he taught Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Portuguese. The following year, he took a specialization course in Cardiology at the Santa Casa de Misericórdia Infirmary, where he was integrated as an assistant. Between 1973 and 1975 he completed his master's degree in cardiology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Still in 1975, he presented the first version of the course “The Electrocardiogram”, which was taught in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Quito, Ecuador. In 1989 Enéas entered politics. He created the Party for the Rebuilding of the National Order (PRONA), launching his candidacy for the presidency of the Republic. As it had no representation in the National Congress, it only had two 15-second exposures per day during election hours. His speeches based on law and order always ended with the phrase “My name is Aeneas”. Until then unknown, he finished the election in 12th place among 21 candidates. In 1994 he once again launched his name for the presidency, finishing in third place, just behind Fernando Henrique and Luiz Inácio. In 1998 he ran for president for the third time. During the campaign he defended the re-nationalization of companies privatized by Fernando Henrique and the production of the atomic bomb. He came in 4th place in the election that re-elected Fernando Henrique. In 2000 he ran for mayor of São Paulo, but was not elected. In 2002, Enéas was elected federal deputy for São Paulo with 1.7 million votes, a record. His party obtained enough votes to elect five more federal deputies, all founders of PRONA, through the proportional system, even with an insignificant vote.