2008 in Brazil

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)
See also
2008 in Brazilian football
2008 in Brazilian television
List of Brazilian films of 2008
References
2000s in Brazil
Years of the 21st century in Brazil
Brazil
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