- He is a writer, journalist and Brazilian politician.
- Father of surfer Maya Gabeira. Cousin of journalist Leda Nagle.
- His military history started with the 8th October Revolutionary Movement (MR8). To achieve a radical result, militants believed that extreme attitudes were necessary. It was in late 1969 that a group kidnapped the American ex-ambassador Charles Elbrick. Gabeira was responsible for renting the house where Elbrick stayed, as well as carrying messages and the list of prisoners who should be released in exchange for the ambassador.
- Maya Gabeira, one of his daughters with fashion designer Yamê Reis, has become a top female big wave surfer. She said the trauma of her parents' divorce drove her to leave home at age 15 and go to Australia on a student program. She moved to Hawaii in 2004 at age 17 to surf world class waves. She quickly emerged as the world's top female big-wave surfer, winning global championships surfing challenging spots like Mavericks, Waimea, Todos Santos, and South Africa's shark-infested "Dungeons".
- He was expelled from colleges and left the city of Juíz de Fora, his hometown, to travel to Rio de Janeiro, in 1963.
- His best-selling book "O Que é Isso, Companheiro?" (1979) earned a movie adaptation, internationally entitled Four Days in September (1997), directed by Bruno Barreto. Gabeira was played by Brazilian actor Pedro Cardoso. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998.
- As a journalist, worked for the newspaper "Jornal do Brasil" and published articles on the main medias of his time, such as "Binômio", "Última Hora" e "Correio de Minas".
- He was one of the founding members of the Green Party of Brazil (Partido Verde, PV), but left the group in 2002 to join the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT). Then he rejoined the Greens, due to his disappointment with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government, and also because of the way the Worker's Party was dealing with its remaining far-left members.
- In 1979, just after his return from exile, a photo of Gabeira wearing a very small knitted swimsuit on Ipanema beach turned into a national scandal. Many years later, Gabeira revealed that his scandalous bathing suit was indeed the bottom part of one of Leda Nagle's bikinis.
- Had a brief marriage on his twenties with Marília Abreu Rola, a previous co-worker, journalist from "Correio de Minas".
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