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1988 in Brazil
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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 6 to 9 and at Estádio do Morumbi in São Paulo from January 13 to 16.[1][2][3][4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7]
October
- October 5: The country's current constitution is created. According to the new constitution, Roraima becomes Brazil's 24th state.[8]
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.[9]
December
- December 22: Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.[10]
- 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.[11]
Births
January
- January 16: Mel Fronckowiak, actress and television host
- 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
April
- April 25: Lygia Clark, artist (b. 1920)[13]
May
- May 28: Alfredo Volpi, painter (b. 1896)[14]
June
August
- August 23: Menotti Del Picchia, poet and painter (b. 1892)
December
- December 22: Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, environmental activist (b. 1944)[15]
- December 31: Yara Amaral, actress (b. 1936)
