Brasil de Fato

Brasil de Fato (English: Brazil de facto) is a far left Brazilian online newspaper and a radio agency, in addition to having regional newspapers in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná and Pernambuco.^[1]

Brasil de Fato

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Sociedade Editorial Brasil de Fato
Editor	Nilton Viana
Staff writers	8
Founded	January 25, 2003
Headquarters	São Paulo, SP Brazil
Circulation	50,000[citation needed]
Website	www.brasildefato.com.br

History

Launched on January 25, 2003, on the World Social Forum of 2003^[2] in Porto Alegre by social movement organizations like the Landless Workers' Movement, Via Campesina, and Pastoral Care Social Commission, it circulated for more than ten years with a national weekly print version. It was founded by Alípio Freire. Brasil de Fato is funded by groups with alleged ties to Neville Roy Singham.^[3]

The newspaper, of national circulation, gathers left-wing journalists, writers, commentators, and other national and international intellectuals, who joined to form Brasil de Fato after they realized the need to a democratization of the press. It intends the debate of ideas and the analysis of facts from the standpoint of the need for social change in the country.