2003 in Brazil

Events in the year 2003 in Brazil .

Incumbents

Federal government

• President : Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• Vice President : José Alencar Gomes da Silva

Governors

• Acre : Jorge Viana
• Alagoas : Ronaldo Lessa
• Amapa : Waldez Góes (from 1 January)
• Amazonas : Eduardo Braga (from 1 January)
• Bahia :
  • Otto Alencar (until 1 January)
  • Paulo Souto (from 1 January)
• Ceará :
  • Beni Veras (until 1 January)
  • Lúcio Alcântara (from 1 January)
• Espírito Santo :
  • José Ignácio Ferreira (until 1 January)
  • Paulo Hartung (from 1 January)
• Goiás : Marconi Perillo
• Maranhão : José Reinaldo Tavares
• Mato Grosso : Blairo Maggi (from 1 January)
• Mato Grosso do Sul : José Orcírio Miranda dos Santos
• Minas Gerais :
  • Itamar Franco (until 1 January)
  • Aécio Neves (from 1 January)
• Pará :
  • Almir Gabriel (until 1 January)
  • Simão Jatene (from 1 January)
• Paraíba : Cássio Cunha Lima (from 1 January)
• Paraná :
  • Jaime Lerner (until 1 January)
  • Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva (from 1 January)
• Pernambuco : Jarbas Vasconcelos
• Piauí :
  • Hugo Napoleão (until 1 January)
  • Wellington Dias (from 1 January)
• Rio de Janeiro :
  • Benedita da Silva (until 1 January)
  • Rosinha Garotinho (from 1 January)
• Rio Grande do Norte :
  • Fernando Antonio Chamber Freire (until 1 January)
  • Wilma Maria de Faria (from 1 January)
• Rio Grande do Sul :
  • Olívio Dutra (until 1 January)
  • Germano Rigotto (from 1 January)
• Rondônia : Ivo Narciso Cassol (from 1 January)
• Roraima : Francisco Flamarion Portela
• Santa Catarina :
  • Esperidião Amin (until 1 January)
  • Luiz Henrique da Silveira (from 1 January)
• São Paulo : Geraldo Alckmin
• Sergipe :
  • Albano Franco (until 1 January)
  • João Filho (from 1 January)
• Tocantins : Marcelo Miranda (from 1 January)

Vice governors

• Acre :
  • Edison Simão Cadaxo (until 1 January)
  • Arnóbio Marques de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
• Alagoas :
  • Geraldo Costa Sampaio (until 1 January)
  • Luís Abílio de Sousa Neto (from 1 January)
• Amapá :
  • Maria Dalva de Souza Figueiredo (until 1 January)
  • Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho (from 1 January)
• Amazonas :
  • Samuel Assayag Hanan (until 1 January)
  • Omar José Abdel Aziz (from 1 January)
• Bahia : Eraldo Tinoco Melo (from 1 January)
• Ceará : Francisco de Queiroz Maia Júnior (from 1 January)
• Espírito Santo :
  • Celso José Vasconcelos (until 1 January)
  • Wellington Coimbra (from 1 January)
• Goiás : Alcides Rodrigues Filho
• Maranhão : Jurandir Ferro do Lago Filho (from 1 January)
• Mato Grosso : Iraci Araújo Moreira (from 1 January)
• Mato Grosso do Sul :
  • Moacir Kohl (until 1 January)
  • Egon Krakheche (from 1 January)
• Minas Gerais :
  • Newton Cardoso (until 1 January)
  • Clésio Soares de Andrade (from 1 January)
• Pará :
  • Hildegardo de Figueiredo Nunes (until 1 January)
  • Valéria Pires Franco (from 1 January)
• Paraíba : Lauremília Lucena (from 1 January)
• Paraná :
  • Emília de Sales Belinati (until 1 January)
  • Orlando Pessuti (from 1 January)
• Pernambuco : José Mendonça Bezerra Filho
• Piauí :
  • Felipe Mendes de Oliveira (until 1 January)
  • Osmar Ribeiro de Almeida Júnior (from 1 January)
• Rio de Janeiro : Luiz Paulo Conde (from 1 January)
• Rio Grande do Norte :
  • Vacant (until 1 January)
  • Antônio Jácome (from 1 January)
• Rio Grande do Sul :
  • Miguel Soldatelli Rossetto (until 1 January)
  • Antônio Carlos Hohlfeldt (from 1 January)
• Rondônia :
  • Miguel de Souza (until 1 January)
  • Odaísa Fernandes Ferreira (from 1 January)
• Roraima :
  • Salomão Afonso de Souza Cruz (1 January-10 November)
  • Erci de Moraes (from 10 November)
• Santa Catarina : Eduardo Pinho Moreira (from 1 January)
• São Paulo :
  • Vacant (until 1 January)
  • Claudio Lembo (from 1 January)
• Sergipe :
  • Benedito de Figueiredo (until 1 January)
  • Marília Mandarino (from 1 January)
• Tocantins :
  • João Lisboa da Cruz (until 1 January)
  • Raimundo Nonato Pires dos Santos (from 1 January)

Events

January

• January 1 : Syndicalist leader and leader of the Workers' Party, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is inaugurated as President of Brazil. ^[1]
• January 30 : President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva introduces the Fome Zero program, in order to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty in the country. ^[2]

June

• June 20 : An earthquake that reaches a 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale, hits the state of Amazonas. It is the biggest tremor recorded in Brazil. ^[3]

August

• August 19 : A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. ^{[4] [5] [6]}
• August 22 : An explosion at the Alcântara Launch Center kills 21 scientists. This would become the biggest accident in the history of the Brazilian space program. ^[7]

September

• September 2 : Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil is awarded the Latin Grammy for Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. ^[8]

October

• October 20 : President Lula da Silva introduces Bolsa Família, a unified social welfare program. ^[9]

Births

• June 21: Giovana Queiroz, football player

Deaths

January

• January 25: Scylla Médici, First Lady of Brazil (1969-1974) (b. 1907)

March

• March 7: José Márcio Ayres, conservationist and zoologist (b. 1954)

April

• April 24: Gino Orlando, footballer (b. 1929)

May

• May 8: Elvira Pagã, vedette (b. 1920)
• May 25: Almir Chediak, musician and entrepreneur (b. 1950)

June

• June 12: Itamar Assumpção, songwriter and composer (b. 1949)

July

• July 28: Noite Ilustrada, singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
• July 31: Bigode, footballer (b. 1922)

August

• August 6: Roberto Marinho, founder of Grupo Globo, the largest mass media company in Brazil and Latin America (b. 1904)
• August 19: Sérgio Vieira de Mello, United Nations diplomat (b. 1948)

References

1. "Presidente Lula assume o país diante de 200 mil pessoas. Posse foi marcada por festa popular". revistaepoca.globo.com (in Portuguese). Época Online. January 1, 2003. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
2. The Fome Zero (Zero Hunger Program) : The Brazilian experience, Food and Agriculture Organization, published in 2011.
3. AM registra terremoto 'imperceptível' (primeira página do caderno Cotidiano), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de junho de 2003).
4. Ghattas, Kim (11 August 2007). "Mixed feelings over UN Iraq role". BBC News . Retrieved 22 February 2015.
5. United Nations (21 August 2003). "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Afghanistan". United Nations . Retrieved 6 February 2011.
6. United Nations (19 August 2004). "UN wrestling with security questions one year after Baghdad bombing – Annan". United Nations . Retrieved 6 February 2011.
7. Foguete brasileiro explode e mata 16 (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (23 de agosto de 2003).
8. "GRAMMY LATINO 2003: Veja lista de premiados e saiba como foi o evento - 02/09/2003 -". musica.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
9. Governo unifica os programas sociais sem garantir verba (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S. Paulo (21 de outubro de 2003).

See also

• 2003 in Brazilian football
• 2003 in Brazilian television
• List of Brazilian films of 2003