Diogo Mainardi

Diogo Briso Mainardi (born September 22, 1962) is a Brazilian writer, producer, screenwriter, and journalist. He became widely known in Brazil for his weekly column in Veja magazine, where he wrote social and political commentary. He is a prominent critic of left-wing governments, particularly the administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, about whom he wrote the book Lula É Minha Anta (Lula Is My Idiot), a collection of his columns regarding the Mensalão scandal. He is the brother of filmmaker Vinícius Mainardi, who died in April 2021.

He is the founder of the news portal O Antagonista. In May 2018, Mainardi began writing weekly columns for the magazine Crusoé. On September 10, 2022, he announced he would no longer write for the portal, remaining only as a partner. Mainardi was a regular member of the talk show Manhattan Connection between 2003 and 2021, and again from 2023 to 2024.