Former publisher of “Estadão”, the journalist had a clash with Oreste Quércia in 1994, a moment that was still remembered on social networks as one of the most surprising in the history of Roda Viva, TV Culture
The journalist Rui Xavier died at dawn on Saturday 19, at 79. He was hospitalized in the hospital at the Samaritan hospital, in the south of Rio, from February 20, and took care of lung cancer.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Rui Xavier worked Estadão In the 90s.
As political director of EstadãoRui Xavier was one of the guests of the Roda Viva program, from Culture TVFor the interview with the then governor of San Paolo, Orestes Quércia, in 1994. A question asked by the journalist on the politician’s enrichment caused one of the most remarkable moments in the history of the program.
The cutout of the clashes, with the Governor’s reactions, has over 1 million views on the official Roda Viva channel on YouTube. “Safado”, “Liar” and “Slandous” were some of Quércia’s malice after the question. The attacks were bent by the journalist, who insisted questions about the inheritance of the politician. Often the episode is remembered on social networks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8brme1rcs
In a declaration, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) complained of the death of the journalist, who was a consultant and a great entity of the entity.
Rui Xavier was born in 1945. In the military dictatorship he began in 1964, he became a political prisoner for two years, between 1969 and 1971. He had three children – one of them died in 2023 – and leaves five grandchildren.
At the farewell ceremony at the ABI headquarters, in Rio, the daughters of Rui Xavier, Dani and Carol and the president of the entity, Octavio Costa, paid tribute to the journalist. His body will be cremated this Sunday, 2, in a limited family ceremony.
“My father is a man of many friends who have cultivated the relationship with them. It was a very important part of his life. Also in a carnival on Saturday, many people managed to pay homage,” said Carol Xavier at 36 years old.
The daughter read to friends and family, at the Saturday ceremony, a letter that describes the relationship with the father and the characteristics of his personality.
“He was able to cross difficult moments of life and has always been able to find fun and playful ways to look at difficult situations,” he said. “Where I saw the thorns, my father saw the flower. It was Rui Xavier. A guy who was able to see beauty even in arid situations. He had the gift of making people feel special around him because he could see what was most beautiful in each.”
Rui Xavier’s writing colleagues also paid tribute to the journalist. Special reporter of Estadão In Brasilia, Vera Rosa worked with the journalist between 1994 and 1997 in San Paolo and remembers him as a teacher.
“Coordinator of politics, vibrated with the news and did not allow anyone to give up the agenda as much as everything conspired against the report of reports,” he said. “Rui was very funny and had a huge heart. A journalist once discussed ugly with him, in the middle of the editorial staff, because of a story. He said he was not” child “and Rui reacted:” You are fired! “
“It is very sad that he died during the carnival because he was a great samba lover,” says Pedro Cardo, who was editor Estadão In the 90s, when Xavier worked in the editorial office and today he is a editorialist for the newspaper Valor Econômic. At that time, he says, Rui Xavier participated in Wheels Samba in San Paolo who were promoted by Cariocas of the writing of Estadão At that time, including Aluísio Maranhão, then writing director. “His good mood was a brand, but he was also very severe in investigations on political information, he accused his journalists always attentively.”
Luiz Fernando Real, who was a political publisher of EstadãoHe also worked in the newspaper with Rui Xavier. “Rui was an optimist in life and work. There was a very carious spirit. In the essays he crossed, he worked hard. But at the same time, he touched the routine slightly. He was always cheerful and excited, thinking that everything would work.”
Rem says that the day after the famous episode of The Clash in AuctionRui was very praised by the colleagues of Estadão To be serene and still, without cowardice. He explained: “At that time, I thought my children were watching TV and could not fail”.
The journalist Hélio Gama Neto also worked with Rui no Estadão And he remembers his colleague as a man with a generous vision on life and Brazil. “Democratic and journalist like few, easy to perceive on the importance of the truth of the facts, especially in politics and economics. The NATO leader was one of the most important journalists of his generation and, more recently, a fundamental voice against the evil of the century: mass uninformation on social networks.”
Source: Terra
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