2008 in Brazil
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Events from the year 2008 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
- April 4: Killing of Rachel Genofre in Curitiba, Paraná. It would be more than 11 years before authorities would fin Carlos Eduardo dos Santos responsible for the 9-year-old's murder.[4]
- 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.[5]
- 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.[6]
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. [7]
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.[8][9]
November
- November 2: Lewis Hamilton finishes 5th at the Brazilian Grand Prix to win the 2008 Formula One Drivers' Championship, beating Felipe Massa who won the race by 1 point. Scuderia Ferrari however secured the Constructors' Championship.
- November 3: Banks Itaú and Unibanco merge into Itaú Unibanco.[10]
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)
- Oswaldo Louzada, actor (b. 1912)
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)[11]
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)
