even those who do not watch soap operas end up finding out what is going on in the plot, since they are a very popular topic at bars and work everywhere in brazil, just like soccer.

brazilian soap operas are so praised that many are translated into other languages and aired on foreign countries.

in 1962 color tv arrived in brazil. chatô by then began experiencing health complications after a thrombosis that left him in a wheelchair.

his media empire, then quickly started to decline after his death in 1968, and tv globo, brazil's most popular tv channel of the present time began to take the lead.