Tia Neiva - Early Life

Early Life

She was born in Propiá, in the state of Sergipe in 1926. Until 1959, when she was 33, Neiva Chavez Zelaya was an unremarkable woman and had not manifested any public mediunic tendencies. The only trait that set her apart was the fact the she had become a truck driver after her husband died and left her with four children to raise. Neiva went to Brasília, where she rented one of her two trucks to Novacap, the company that built the new capital.

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