2013 in Brazil
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Federal government
- President: Dilma Rousseff
- Vice President: Michel Temer
- President of the Chamber of Deputies: Henrique Eduardo Alves
- President of the Senate: Renan Calheiros
Governors
- Acre: Tião Viana
- Alagoas: Teotônio Vilela Filho
- Amapa: Camilo Capiberibe
- Amazonas: Omar Aziz
- Bahia: Jaques Wagner
- Ceará: Cid Gomes
- Espírito Santo: Renato Casagrande
- Goiás: Marconi Perillo
- Maranhão: Roseana Sarney
- Mato Grosso: Silval da Cunha
- Mato Grosso do Sul: André Puccinelli
- Minas Gerais: Antônio Anastasia
- Pará: Simão Jatene
- Paraíba: Ricardo Coutinho
- Paraná: Beto Richa
- Pernambuco: Eduardo Campos
- Piauí: Wilson Martins
- Rio de Janeiro: Sérgio Cabral Filho
- Rio Grande do Norte: Rosalba Ciarlini Rosado
- Rio Grande do Sul: Tarso Genro
- Rondônia: Confúcio Moura
- Roraima: José de Anchieta Júnior
- Santa Catarina – Raimundo Colombo
- São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
- Sergipe:
- Marcelo Déda (until 2 December)
- Jackson Barreto (starting 2 December)
- Tocantins: Siqueira Campos
Vice governors
- Acre: Carlos César Correia de Messias
- Alagoas: José Thomaz da Silva Nonô Neto
- Amapá: Doralice Nascimento de Souza
- Amazonas: José Melo de Oliveira
- Bahia: Otto Alencar
- Ceará: Domingos Gomes de Aguiar Filho
- Espírito Santo: Givaldo Vieira da Silva
- Goiás: José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
- Maranhão: Joaquim Washington Luiz de Oliveira
- Mato Grosso: Francisco Tarquínio Daltro
- Mato Grosso do Sul: Simone Tebet
- Minas Gerais: Alberto Pinto Coelho Júnior
- Pará: Helenilson Cunha Pontes
- Paraíba: Rômulo José de Gouveia
- Paraná: Flávio José Arns
- Pernambuco: João Soares Lyra Neto
- Piauí: Wilson Martins
- Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Fernando Pezão
- Rio Grande do Norte: Robinson Faria
- Rio Grande do Sul: Jorge Alberto Duarte Grill
- Rondônia: Airton Pedro Gurgacz
- Roraima: Francisco de Assis Rodrigues
- Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira
- São Paulo: Guilherme Afif Domingos
- Sergipe: Jackson Barreto
- Tocantins: João Oliveira de Sousa
Events
January
- January 1: Mayors and councilors, who were elected in the 2012 municipal elections, take office in all Brazilian cities.[1]
- January 27: A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 242 people.[2]
March
- March 8:
- Former goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza is sentenced to 22 years and three months in prison for the death of his ex-girlfriend Eliza Samudio.[3]
- Journalist Rodrigo Neto was killed by two unidentified men who were suspected militia members.
- March 13: Drug lord Fernandinho Beira-Mar is sentenced in Rio de Janeiro to 80 years in prison for crimes committed in 2002.[4]
- March 14: Ex-boyfriend Mizael Bispo de Souza is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the death of lawyer Mércia Nakashima.[5]
- March 19: The Federal Senate of Brazil unanimously approves the proposal to expand the rights of domestic workers.[6]
- March 29-31: The second Brazilian version of the Lollapalooza music festival is held at the Jockey Club in São Paulo.[7][8]
May
- May 4: Nhá Chica becomes the first laywoman and Afro-Brazilian to be declared blessed by the Catholic Church.[9]
- May 7: The president of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso, José Geraldo Riva is removed from office, after being accused of embezzling $4.7 million USD.[10]
June
- June 6: Demonstrations against the increase in public transport fares begin in São Paulo and other cities across the country.[11]
- June 30: Brazil defeats Spain 3-0 at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, to win their fourth FIFA Confederations Cup trophy.[12]
July
- July 22: Pope Francis arrives in Brazil, for his first international trip.[13]
- July 23
- World Youth Day begins in Rio de Janeiro.[14]
- Snow falls in Curitiba for the first time since 1975.
November
- November 14: National Institute for Space Research (INPE) satellite data revealed a 30% increase of deforestation in the Amazon in 2013.[15]
