Around the Globe since the Sixties

Guest Editorial by Guilherme Machiavelli In 1965, soon after the military coup d’état in Brazil, a media conglomerate was founded and, in the following years, experienced an spectacular growth. This conglomerate, called Rede Globo or, more simply, Globo, became the most influential broadcasting network in Brazil (and, one could argue, in Latin America). (More on Wikipedia). Its socio-cultural importance has been commented often not only inside the country and the continent, but even in other parts of the world, such as England, with BBC’s highly polemical “Beyond Citizen Kane”, a documentary that even now, 15 years after its first british transmission, has not been officially exhibited in Brazil, due to pressure made by the brazilian corporation itself.Since