Events in the year 1988 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government
 President: José Sarney
 Vice President: Vacant

Governors 
 Acre: Flaviano Melo
 Alagoas: Fernando Collor de Mello 
 Amazonas: Amazonino Mendes 
 Bahia: Waldir Pires 
 Ceará: Tasso Jereissati
 Espírito Santo: Max Freitas Mauro
 Goiás: Henrique Santillo
 Maranhão: Epitácio Cafeteira 
 Mato Grosso: Carlos Bezerra
 Mato Grosso do Sul: Marcelo Miranda Soares
 Minas Gerais: Newton Cardoso
 Pará: Hélio Gueiros 
 Paraíba: Tarcísio Burity
 Paraná: Alvaro Dias 
 Pernambuco: Miguel Arraes 
 Piauí: Alberto Silva
 Rio de Janeiro: Moreira Franco
 Rio Grande do Norte: Geraldo José Ferreira de Melo
 Rio Grande do Sul: Pedro Simon  
 Rondônia: Jerônimo Garcia de Santana 
 Roraima: Romero Jucá 
 Santa Catarina: Pedro Ivo Campos
 São Paulo: Orestes Quércia 
 Sergipe: Antônio Carlos Valadares

Vice governors
 Acre: Edison Simão Cadaxo
 Alagoas: Moacir Andrade
 Amazonas: Vivaldo Barros Frota
 Bahia: Nilo Moraes Coelho
 Ceará: Francisco Castelo de Castro
 Espírito Santo: Carlos Alberto Batista da Cunha
 Goiás: Joaquim Domingos Roriz
 Maranhão: João Alberto Souza 
 Mato Grosso: Edison de Oliveira
 Mato Grosso do Sul: George Takimoto
 Minas Gerais: Júnia Marise de Azeredo Coutinho
 Pará: Hermínio Calvinho Filho
 Paraíba: Vacant
 Paraná: Ary Veloso Queiroz
 Pernambuco: Carlos Wilson Rocha de Queirós Campos
 Piauí: Lucídio Portela Nunes 
 Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Amaral
 Rio Grande do Norte: Garibaldi Alves 
 Rio Grande do Sul: Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli
 Rondônia: Orestes Muniz Filho
 Santa Catarina: Casildo João Maldaner
 São Paulo: Almino Afonso 
 Sergipe: Benedito de Figueiredo

Events

January
January 6-16: The first official edition of Hollywood Rock takes place at Praça da Apoteose in Rio de Janeiro from January 6th to 9th and at Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo from January 13th to 16th.

June 
June 25: PSDB is founded by members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party linked to the European social democratic movement as an attempt to clarify their ideals.

August 
 August 3: The end of censorship and torture, as well as freedom of intellectual expression and the press in the country, is approved, by a vote of 313 to 5, by the National Constituent Assembly.

September 
 September 29: VASP Flight 375, made by a Boeing 737-300, is hijacked by an unemployed person, with the intention of crashing the plane into the Planalto Palace and killing President José Sarney. The kidnapping ends unsuccessfully.

October 
 October 5: The country's current constitution is created. According to the new constitution, Roraima becomes Brazil's 24th state.

November 
November 29: Presidents José Sarney of Brazil and Raúl Alfonsin of Argentina, sign the Treaty of Integration, Cooperation and Development in Buenos Aires, which stipulates a deadline for the creation of a free trade area between the two countries.

December 
December 22: Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.
December 31: The Bateau Mouche cruise ship capsized and sank in the South Atlantic off Rio de Janeiro with the loss of at least 51 of the 149 people on board.

Births

January
January 17: Taison, professional footballer
January 21: Felipe Neto, Youtuber

February
February 8: Renato Augusto, professional footballer

March
March 28: Arthur Sanches, football player

May
May 12: Marcelo, professional footballer
May 30: Amanda Nunes, mixed martial artist

June
June 7: Marlos, professional footballer

July
July 5: Adriano Buzaid, racing driver
July 25: Paulinho, professional footballer

August
August 9: Willian, professional footballer

September
September 28: Caio César, actor, voice actor and police officer (d. 2015)

Deaths

January
January 4: Henfil, cartoonist and writer (b. 1944)
January 11: Janires, singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
January 15: Viana Moog, writer and journalist (b. 1906)

April
April 25: Lygia Clark, artist (b. 1920)

May
May 28: Alfredo Volpi, painter (b. 1896)

June
June 30: Chacrinha, television personality (b. 1917)

December
December 22: Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, environmental activist (b. 1944)
December 31: Yara Amaral, actress (b. 1936)

See also 
1988 in Brazilian football
1988 in Brazilian television

References

 
1980s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil