2008 in Brazil

Events from the year 2008 in Brazil .

Incumbents

Federal government

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

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 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)

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)

See also

• 2008 in Brazilian football
• 2008 in Brazilian television
• List of Brazilian films of 2008

References

1. Polícia recupera quadros do Masp (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (9 de janeiro de 2008).
2. Menina cai de prédio e morre; polícia vê crime (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (31 de março de 2008).
3. Justiça condena Abadía à prisão (página 9 do caderno Cotidiano), Folha de S.Paulo (2 de abril de 2008).
4. "Homenageados delegado do caso Rachel Genofre e Enamorados do Samba". www.curitiba.pr.leg.br. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
5. "Há 15 anos, 'padre dos balões' fazia seu último voo ao desaparecer no Oceano Atlântico". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-04-21.
6. Terremoto assusta São Paulo (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (23 de abril de 2008).
7. À luz do dia, ladrões roubam 4 obras da Estação Pinacoteca (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (13 de junho de 2008).
8. Mais longo caso de cárcere privado em SP completa 3 dias; negociações prosseguem – Folha de S. Paulo
9. Swat teria atirado em seqüestrador, diz especialista em negociações – globo.com
10. Dealbook (2008-11-03). "Brazilian Banks Itau and Unibanco to Merge". DealBook. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
11. "Ruth Cardoso | Brazilian anthropologist and educator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 June 2020.