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Eliezer Batista

Eliezer Batista da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [eliˈɛzeɾ baˈtʃistɐ ˈsiwvɐ]; 4 May 1924 – 18 June 2018) was a Brazilian businessman, engineer and politician. In 1979, he was appointed president of Vale do Rio Doce, a multinational metals and mining corporation headquartered in Brazil, and within six years, increased the company's annual profits from $36 million to $920 million. Today, Vale S.A. is the largest producer of iron ore and nickel worldwide.

He was the father of former billionaire Eike Batista, once the richest man in Brazil. Batista served as Minister to the Ministry of Mines and Energy for one month in 1962.

Batista was born 4 May 1924 in Nova Era, Minas Gerais, to José Batista da Silva and Maria da Natividade Pereira, both of whom were of Portuguese descent. He received a degree in civil engineering from the Federal University of Paraná in 1948.

Batista was married to Jutta Fuhrken, a native of Hamburg, Germany, with whom he had seven children, including Eike Batista. In 2009, he divorced her and subsequently remarried to Inguelore Scheunemann, a dentist and former professor and rectoress at the Federal University of Pelotas, also of German origin.

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