O jornal O Globo no golpe de 64

Abstract

This article analyzes the role of the newspaper O Globo in the context of the Brazilian political crisis between January and April 1964, a period that culminated in the deposition of João Goulart and the establishment of the civil-military regime. Based on the methodological perspective of José D'Assunção Barros, the study understands the newspaper as a historical actor embedded in a specific place of production, and not as a neutral source of events. The research is qualitative, historical, and documentary in nature, using editions of the newspaper within the delimited time frame as its corpus, analyzed using Critical Discourse Analysis. It also engages with the interpretations of Marcos Napolitano, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Heloisa Murgel Starling, and Carlos Fico. It concludes that the newspaper actively participated in the construction of meanings that contributed to the legitimization of the democratic rupture.