# 1970 in Brazil

Events in the year 1970 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: General Emílio Garrastazu Médici
* Vice President: General Augusto Rademaker

### Governors

* Acre: Vacant
* Alagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho
* Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
* Bahia: Luís Viana Filho
* Ceará: Plácido Castelo
* Espírito Santo: Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho
* Goiás: Otávio Lage
* Guanabara:
** Francisco Negrão de Lima (until 15 March)
** Antonio de Pádua Chagas Freitas (starting 15 March)
* Maranhão:
** José Sarney (until 14 May)
** Antônio Jorge Dino (from 14 May)
* Mato Grosso: Pedro Pedrossian
* Minas Gerais: Israel Pinheiro da Silva
* Pará: Alacid Nunes
* Paraíba: João Agripino Maia
* Paraná: Pablo Cruz Pimentel
* Pernambuco: Nilo Coelho
* Piauí:
** Helvídio Nunes (until 14 May)
** João Turíbio Monteiro de Santana (14 May-15 May)
** João Clímaco d'Almeida (from 15 May)
* Rio de Janeiro: Geremias de Mattos Fontes
* Rio Grande do Norte: Walfredo Gurgel Dantas
* Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Peracchi Barcelos
* Santa Catarina: Ivo Silveira
* São Paulo: Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré
* Sergipe:
** Lourival Baptista (until 14 May)
** Wolney Leal de Melo (14 May-4 June)
** João de Andrade Garcez (from 4 June)

### Vice governors

* Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz
* Amazonas: Deoclides de Carvalho Leal
* Bahia: Jutahy Magalhães
* Ceará: Humberto Ellery
* Espírito Santo: Isaac Lopes Rubim
* Goiás: Osires Teixeira
* Maranhão:
** Antonio Jorge Dino (until 14 May)
** Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
* Mato Grosso: Lenine de Campos Póvoas
* Minas Gerais: Pio Soares Canedo
* Pará: João Renato Franco
* Paraíba: Antônio Juarez Farias (from 12 September)
* Paraná: Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
* Pernambuco: Salviano Machado Filho
* Piauí:
** João Clímaco d'Almeida (until 14 May)
** Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
* Rio de Janeiro: Heli Ribeiro Gomes
* Rio Grande do Norte: Clóvis Motta
* Santa Catarina: Jorge Bornhausen
* São Paulo: Hilário Torloni
* Sergipe:
** Manoel Paulo Vasconcelos (until 14 May)
** Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)

## Events
### January

* January 26: After Leila Diniz's controversial interview to O Pasquim, the government signs Decree-Law Nº 1.077/1970, which censors material "subversive of morals and good customs"

### March

* March 11: Japanese consul-general in São Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi is kidnapped by the leftist guerrilla group Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária.
* March 14: Five political prisoners are released in exchange for the release of Japanese consul Nobuo Okuchi.
* March 15: Japanese consul Nobuo Okuchi is released in the early evening, 97 hours and 45 minutes after being kidnapped by members of the VPR.
* March 25: President Emílio Garrastazu Médici signs a decree-law, providing for the expansion of the Brazilian territorial sea from 12 to 200 nautical miles.

### June

* June 11: West German ambassador Ehrenfried von Holleben is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro, by the Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária and Ação Libertadora Nacional.
* June 21: Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. It is the third time Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup.

### July

* July 1: Four Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária (VPR) members unsuccessfully attempt to hijack a Cruzeiro do Sul plane with 34 passengers and 7 crew on board. The aircraft was stormed and the hijackers arrested.
* July 31: Brazilian consul Aloísio Mares Dias Gomide is kidnapped in Montevideo, Uruguay, by the Tupamaros; an Uruguayan urban guerrilla group.

### November

* November 15: General elections for senators, federal and state deputies, mayors, and councilors are held.

### December

* December 7: Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped by the Ação Libertadora Nacional in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.

## Births
### January

* January 1 – João Miguel, actor
* January 20 – Andrucha Waddington, director and producer

### April

* April 18 – Patrícia Bastos, singer
* April 20 – Adriano Moraes, rodeo performer

### May

* May 22 – Pedro Diniz, racing driver

### June

* June 7 –
** Ronaldo da Costa, long-distance runner
** Cafu, footballer
* June 8 – Seu Jorge, Musical artist

### August

* August 11 – Daniella Perez, actress (died 1992)
* August 27 – Edinho, footballer and manager

### September

* September 4 – Igor Cavalera, drummer
* September 19 – Sonny Anderson, footballer

## Deaths
### February

* February 20 – João Café Filho, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899)