Diogo Mainardi

Diogo Mainardi (born September 22, 1962) is a Brazilian writer and articulist, mainly known for his short, impactful, ironic articles in Brazil´s best-selling, weekly newsmagazine, Veja. Undoubtedly an iconoclast, he is one of the most controversial writers in his country, having published texts that go from the comic to the aggressive, from melancholic to pure sarcasm.

Quotes

"I don't feel the responsibility to construct, only to destroy".

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"The role of the press is to chase, hunt and knock down the politicians in power- someone´s gotta control those people".

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"Lula is my XBox. He´s my Nintendo".

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