The RLE assumed the Portuguese language speaking countries as its primary space. As we said, it was not an "old (neo) colonial nostalgia - impossible in a context where none of its members takes a central and hegemonic place in the world system -, but it is based on affections, solidarity and cooperation among academic communities that share, beyond a common language forged in a rich historical miscegenation, objectives of diffusion and internationalization of its scientific production " (Editorial No1). But it was also added that the RLE is not closed "to other linguistic, cultural and scientific spaces", but rather, and very early, "solid links with the academic communities committed to establish networks of scientific production and dissemination with supportive and critical basis, were settled " becoming, in less than 10 years, an international journal of reasonable diffusion. .