Lúcia Guimarães

Lúcia Guimarães is a Brazilian journalist. While based largely in New York, she became a frequent contributor to Brazilian television, print, and radio media on the culture of the United States and events in American politics. She has been a columnist at Folha de São Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo and a producer at Rede Globo, and she contributed to the talk show Manhattan Connection for 16 years.

Career Guimarães is from the state of Rio de Janeiro, and she moved to New York City in 1985. There, she worked as the international editor at Rede Globo, a producer of the Jornal Nacional, and a producer for the journalist Paulo Francis. From 1992 to 1993 she was an editor and producer at Reuters. When the GNT and Globosat talk show Manhattan Connection was created in 1993, she became a presenter and producer at the show. In 2008 Guimarães left Manhattan Connection to work for another GNT journalism program, Saia Justa (Pt).

In 2020, Guimarães became a weekly columnist for Folha de São Paulo. For Folha, she covers international politics and particularly events in the United States.

Guimarães has also worked at Bravo, and contributed to the magazine Playboy. She has made regular appearances on the radio show Estadão no Ar 1st Edition, particularly on American culture and developments in American politics.

Guimarães appeared in the film Caro Francis, which depicts the life of Paulo Francis, with whom Guimarães worked closely.