Claudio Coletti, who headed Folha’s branch and covered Jânio and De Gaulle’s visit, dies – 01/09/2024 – Power

Journalist Claudio Coletti, first director of Folha’s Brasília Branch, died this Tuesday (9), aged 93, in the municipality of Alcobaça (BA).

Born in Foz do Iguaçu (PR), on November 1, 1930, Colleti started at the newspaper in 1948, at the age of 18, in São Paulo. He went to Brasília in 1960, where he became the branch’s first director. The journalist stayed in Sheet until 1979. Later, he consulted for politicians and moved to the coast of Bahia.

According to Cláudia, Colleti’s daughter, the journalist died at home — the family is still awaiting a report on the official cause.

After starting out in the newsroom helping other professional colleagues, as an assistant at Folhas da Manhã and Noite, Colleti became interested in journalism and started doing small reports.

His talent for the profession led him to receive more complex activities, such as journalistic coverage of Jânio Quadros, mayor and governor of São Paulo in the 1950s and later president of the Republic. Later, he was invited to continue coverage in Brasília.

He arrived in the region 20 days before the inauguration of the federal capital. From there, he prepared coverage of the event with reports that were typed and sent to São Paulo on daily Vasp flights.

In the city, he set up a bookstore and worked in the general inspectorate of the Labor Court — the practice of double employment was common at the time.

In an interview given to Sheet in 2021, Colleti stated that the profession’s biggest challenge was covering the arrival of General Charles de Gaulle, then president of France, to Brazil, in 1964.

Also in an interview, he recalled the dictatorial period, in which D’Alembert Jaccoud, one of the journalists from the Brasília branch, was tortured, and the military put pressure on the newspaper.

Coletti left Sheet on August 30, 1979. After that, he advised politicians such as Franco Montoro (1916-1999) and Átila Lins (PP-AM). He left the federal capital and moved to Alcobaça in 2020, the city in which he died.

He leaves his children Cláudia, Paulo Cesar, Cláudio, Tânia and Patrícia.