# 2008 in Brazil

Events from the year 2008 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
* Vice President: José Alencar Gomes da Silva

### Governors

* Acre: Binho Marques
* Alagoas: Teotônio Vilela Filho
* Amapa: Waldez Góes
* Amazonas: Eduardo Braga
* Bahia: Jaques Wagner
* Ceará: Cid Gomes
* Espírito Santo: Paulo Hartung
* Goiás: Alcides Rodrigues
* Maranhão: Jackson Lago
* Mato Grosso: Blairo Maggi
* Mato Grosso do Sul: André Puccinelli
* Minas Gerais: Aécio Neves
* Pará: Ana Júlia Carepa
* Paraíba: Cássio Cunha Lima
* Parana: Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva
* Pernambuco: Eduardo Campos
* Piauí: Wellington Dias
* Rio de Janeiro: Sérgio Cabral Filho
* Rio Grande do Norte: Wilma Maria de Faria
* Rio Grande do Sul: Yeda Rorato Crusius
* Rondônia: Ivo Narciso Cassol
* Roraima: José de Anchieta Júnior
* Santa Catarina: Luiz Henrique da Silveira
* São Paulo: José Serra
* Sergipe: Marcelo Déda
* Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda

### Vice governors

* Acre: Carlos César Correia de Messias
* Alagoas: José Wanderley Neto
* Amapá: Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho
* Amazonas: Omar José Abdel Aziz
* Bahia: Edmundo Pereira Santos
* Ceará: Francisco José Pinheiro
* Espírito Santo: Ricardo de Rezende Ferraço
* Goiás: Ademir de Oliveira Meneses
* Maranhão: Luís Carlos Porto
* Mato Grosso: Silval da Cunha Barbosa
* Mato Grosso do Sul: Murilo Zauith
* Minas Gerais: Antonio Augusto Junho Anastasia
* Pará: Odair Santos Corrêa
* Paraíba: José Lacerda Neto
* Paraná: Orlando Pessuti
* Pernambuco: João Soares Lyra Neto
* Piauí: Wilson Martins
* Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Fernando Pezão
* Rio Grande do Norte: Iberê Ferreira
* Rio Grande do Sul: Paulo Afonso Girardi Feijó
* Rondônia: João Aparecido Cahulla
* Roraima: Vacant
* Santa Catarina: Leonel Pavan
* São Paulo: Alberto Goldman
* Sergipe: Belivaldo Chagas Silva
* Tocantins: Paulo Sidnei Antunes

## Events
### January

* January 8: The paintings Portrait of Suzanne Bloch by Pablo Picasso and O Lavrador de Café by Cândido Portinari are recovered, after being stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.

### March

* March 29: Five-year old Isabella Nardoni dies from severe injuries after being thrown out of the sixth floor of a building in São Paulo. This would be one of the most infamous infanticide cases in Brazil.

### April

* April 1: Colombian mega-trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía is sentenced to 30 years and five months in prison by the Brazilian Federal Court.
* April 20: Priest Adelir Antônio de Carli disappears after taking off in a chair attached to a thousand helium balloons, in Paranaguá, Paraná. The priest's remains were found two months later in the Atlantic Ocean, about 62mi from Macaé, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, by a tugboat that provided services to Petrobras.
* April 22: An earthquake of a 5.2 magnitude on the Richter scale, with an epicenter in the ocean, is felt in the city of São Paulo and four other Brazilian states.

### June

* June 12: Art works by Lasar Segall, Di Cavalcanti, and Pablo Picasso are stolen from the Pinacoteca art museum in São Paulo by three armed men.

### October

* October 13 - 17: A 15-year-old girl named Eloá Cristina Pimentel is kidnapped, held hostage, and later murdered by her ex-boyfriend. This would be the longest hostage crisis in the state of São Paulo's history. The São Paulo police are heavily criticized for their handling of the crisis.

### November

* November 3: Banks Itaú and Unibanco merge into Itaú Unibanco.

## Deaths
### January

* January 9: Carmine Furletti president of Cruzeiro (b. 1926)
* January 21: Luiz Carlos Tourinho, actor (b. 1964)
* January 22: Dora Bria, windsurfing champion (b. 1958)

### February

* February 1:
** Hélio Quaglia Barbosa, member of the Superior Court of Justice (b. 1941)
** Beto Carrero, theme park owner and entertainer (b. 1937)
* February 22: Rubens de Falco, telenovela actor (b. 1931)

### March

* March 1: Haroldo de Andrade, radio presenter (b. 1934)
* March 29: Isabella Nardoni, murder victim (b. 2002)

### April

* April 21: Carmen Silva, actress (b. 1916)

### May

* May 17: Zélia Gattai, writer and wife of Jorge Amado (b. 1916)

### June

* June 14: Jamelão, samba singer (b. 1913)
* June 24: Ruth Cardoso, anthropologist, educator and public figure (b. 1930)

### July

* July 11: Breno Mello, footballer and actor (b. 1931)
* July 19: Dercy Gonçalves, comedian (b. 1907)

### August

* August 16: Dorival Caymmi, singer and songwriter (b. 1914)

### September

* September 4:
** Waldick Soriano, singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
** Fernando Torres, actor and voice-over artist (b. 1927)

### October

* October 19: Arthur Sendas, business magnate (b. 1935)

### November

* November 3: Lhofei Shiozawa, judoka (b. 1941)

### December

* December 25: Olívio Aurélio Fazza, Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu (b. 1925)