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Linha Direta (lit. Direct Line) is a Brazilian television program broadcast by Globo Network. Similar in style and loosely based on the United States program, America's Most Wanted, this program has helped the Brazilian authorities apprehend many criminals at large trying to escape justice. The program was cancelled in 2007, but revived in 2023.
Brazilian Air Force. National Information Service. Operation Saucer ( Portuguese: Operação Prato; literally, Operation Plate) was an investigation carried out between 1977 and 1978 by the Brazilian Air Force following alleged UFO sightings in the city of Colares. The investigation was closed after finding no unusual phenomena.
Globo is the second-largest commercial TV network in annual revenue worldwide behind just American Broadcasting Company and the largest producer of telenovelas. [2] Globo launches its own schedule of shows and programs annually, and launches new seasons of pilots, something only seen in Globo itself, compared with the other major television ...
In 2004, Rede Globo's Linha Direta Justiça program presented a reconstruction of the murder of Aída Curi. The airing of this program led the victim's family to file a compensation suit against Globo, for reviving a "sinister notoriety that had haunted them for so many years [sic]".
When interviewed by Linha Direta in 2006, Galiza was accompanied by seven lawyers and presented a new version of the crime, as on other occasions. Always claiming his innocence, but this time accusing three other members of the church, Bishop Fernando Aparecido da Silva, [14] Pastor Joel Miranda Macedo and their security, [14] Luis Claudio.
The Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis, as it is known, refers to the October 2008 incident involving 15-year-old Brazilian girl Eloá Cristina Pimentel, who was kidnapped, taken against her will and held hostage before being murdered by her 22-year-old ex-boyfriend, Lindemberg Alves. Additionally, Pimentel's friend, Nayara da Silva, was shot by Alves.
São Paulo, Brazil. Nationality. Brazilian. Occupation (s) Journalist and television presenter. Marcelo Luiz Rezende Fernandes (November 12, 1951 – September 16, 2017) was a Brazilian journalist and television presenter. He began his career as a sports journalist in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the coverage of several major games in the ...
In Rio Grande do Sul, Grupo RBS - an affiliate of Rede Globo based in the state - produced a documentary about the case. Another documentary, made by independent filmmakers, was also produced. On April 28, 2006, Rede Globo made an episode for Linha Direta dramatizing the case.