2008 in Brazil

2008 in Brazil
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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

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.
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