Caros Amigos is a monthly Brazil

Brazil

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ian magazine

Magazine

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 which focuses on politics

Politics of Brazil

The politics of Brazil take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic, where by the President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system...

, social issues

Social issues in Brazil

Brazil ranks 49.3 in the Gini coefficient index, with the richest 10% of Brazilians receiving 42.7% of the nation's income, while the poorest 10% receive less than 1.2%.-Poverty:...

 and culture

Culture of Brazil

The culture of Brazil presents a very diverse nature reflecting an ethnic and cultural mixing occurred in the colonial period involving mostly Native Americans, Portuguese and Africans...

 from a left wing point of view. It is published in São Paulo

São Paulo

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 and distributed throughout the country by Editora Casa Amarela. The magazine features articles from a large spectrum of left-wing authors, such as Eduardo Suplicy

Eduardo Suplicy

Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy is a Brazilian left-wing politician, economist and professor. He is one of the founders and main political figures on the Workers Party of Brazil .-Biography:...

,and Frei Betto

Frei Betto

Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo, O.P., better known as Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, political activist, liberation theologist and Dominican friar. He was imprisoned for four years by the military dictatorship for smuggling people out of Brazil...

, which is now an objector of Lula.

Sérgio de Souza

Sérgio de Souza

Sérgio de Souza was a Brazilian journalist and writer. Born in Bom Retiro, São Paulo, De Souza co-founded the Caros Amigos, a left leaning, monthly Brazilian political magazine, and served as its editor....

, the co-founder and editor

Editor in chief

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 of Caros Amigos, died on March 25, 2008.

Notable contributors

• Frei Betto
  Frei Betto
  Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo, O.P., better known as Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, political activist, liberation theologist and Dominican friar. He was imprisoned for four years by the military dictatorship for smuggling people out of Brazil...
  
  
• Fidel Castro
  Fidel Castro
  Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...
  
  
• Claudius
  Claudius
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• Palmério Dória
• Guto Lacaz
• Glauco Mattoso
• Eduardo Suplicy
  Eduardo Suplicy
  Eduardo Matarazzo Suplicy is a Brazilian left-wing politician, economist and professor. He is one of the founders and main political figures on the Workers Party of Brazil .-Biography:...