Diários Associados

The Diários Associados, or Associated Dailies, are a federation of Brazilian communication media created by Assis 'Chatô' Chateaubriand, who directed it in a personalist, authoritarian style. It was illegally financed by the populist dictator Getúlio Vargas to give it support against independent media, but survived him as a populist political force until the 1964 Revolution. Today it maintains the populist line, but it was greatly diminished in relative circulation, amount of channels and influence by the 1964 military regime, as well by the death of its founder.