Gazeta do Povo Paywall: How to Read Gazeta do Povo Articles for Free

Gazeta do Povo is the Curitiba daily founded in 1919 and the main newspaper of the state of Paraná, owned by the GRPCOM group. It was one of the first Brazilian papers to adopt a metered paywall, in December 2012, and in 2017 it stopped its daily print edition to become digital-first, keeping a weekend print edition. It is known nationally for its conservative opinion columns, published under the Vozes banner, and for its election polling coverage, which is exactly the material that gets shared most during a campaign and that most often meets the subscription prompt. This guide explains how the paywall works and how to read a full article.

How the Gazeta do Povo paywall works

Gazeta do Povo runs a metered paywall on the Piano platform. Non-subscribers can open a limited number of stories before the subscription box appears, and locked stories are marked as such in the page markup, which declares isAccessibleForFree false. Subscribers can share a limited number of locked stories with non-subscribers, a small escape hatch the paper offers itself.

The gate is enforced in the browser. The article text is delivered in the page so that search engines can index it, and a script then checks whether you are a subscriber or over your limit and swaps the body for the subscription box. A reader that fetches the page without running that script receives the complete article. Our explainer on metered versus hard paywalls sets out why that distinction matters, and Gazeta do Povo is on the softer side of it.

Our tests on 27 October 2026 through Skip the Paywall:

• A 681-word Gazeta do Povo Vozes column by Lúcio Vaz on TCU ministers' pay reaching almost two salary caps in September loaded in full, all 15 paragraphs.
• A 997-word Gazeta do Povo report on Flávio Bolsonaro being ordered to surrender his passports loaded in full, all 22 paragraphs.
• A 424-word Gazeta do Povo story on the government bringing forward Bolsa Família payments before the second round loaded in full, all 11 paragraphs.
• A 408-word Gazeta do Povo story on international press reaction to the passport decision loaded in full, all 9 paragraphs.
• A 304-word Gazeta do Povo story on allied dictatorships congratulating Lula on his re-election loaded in full, all 10 paragraphs.

One page came back flagged as a preview: an 86-word listing of how each senator voted on a constitutional amendment. That is a table rather than an article, and the reader treats it as too short to be complete. Normal reports and columns were not affected.

Read a Gazeta do Povo article in full

• Copy the article link. Gazeta do Povo links look like gazetadopovo.com.br/republica/, gazetadopovo.com.br/economia/ or gazetadopovo.com.br/mundo/ followed by a slug made from the headline, and Vozes columns sit under gazetadopovo.com.br/vozes/ and the columnist's name.
• Paste it into the box on the home page and press Read Article.
• The story appears in a clean reader view with the headline, byline and full text.

The reader shows the article in Portuguese, exactly as Gazeta do Povo published it. If you want it in English, your browser's built-in translation works on the reader page in the normal way.

Other approaches

• Shared links. Subscribers can share a limited number of locked stories, so a link passed on by a subscriber may open without the prompt.
• Private windows. The meter is kept in your browser, so a private window starts the count again, though stories marked for subscribers stay closed.
• Weekend print edition. Gazeta do Povo still prints at the weekend, so the big columns and features can be read on paper in Paraná.
• Related free sources. Court decisions from the Supreme Federal Court, the Senate's own voting records and government announcements are published free, and much of Gazeta do Povo's political reporting can be checked against them.

How it compares with other Brazilian papers

Gazeta do Povo joins a Brazilian list that is in good shape. Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo and Estadão all load in full, and so do the magazines Veja, piauí and CartaCapital. The business daily Valor Econômico was tested the same day and loaded in full, after a mixed result earlier in the month. The full list of sites that work is kept current.

Subscribe if you read it regularly

Gazeta do Povo has been reporting on Paraná and on national politics since 1919 and made the hard decision to go digital-first to keep doing it. If you read its columns and election coverage every week, a digital subscription is the right way to keep that work going.