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 MarquesAlagoas: Teotônio Vilela FilhoAmapa: Waldez Góes Amazonas: Eduardo Braga Bahia: Jaques WagnerCeará: Cid GomesEspírito Santo: Paulo HartungGoiás: Alcides RodriguesMaranhão: Jackson Lago Mato Grosso: Blairo Maggi [List of Governors of List of Governors of Mato Grosso|Mato Grosso do Sul|Mato Grosso do Sul]: André PuccinelliMinas Gerais: Aécio Neves Pará: Ana Júlia CarepaParaíba: Cássio Cunha Lima Parana: Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva Pernambuco: Eduardo CamposPiauí: Wellington Dias Rio de Janeiro: Sérgio Cabral FilhoRio Grande do Norte: Wilma Maria de FariaRio Grande do Sul: Yeda Rorato CrusiusRondônia: Ivo Narciso Cassol Roraima: José de Anchieta JúniorSanta Catarina: Luiz Henrique da Silveira São Paulo: José Serra Sergipe: Marcelo DédaTocantins: Marcelo Miranda

Vice governors

Acre: Carlos César Correia de MessiasAlagoas: José Wanderley Neto Amapá: Pedro Paulo Dias de Carvalho Amazonas: Omar José Abdel Aziz Bahia: Edmundo Pereira SantosCeará: 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 NetoPiauí: 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 CahullaRoraima: VacantSanta Catarina: Leonel Pavan São Paulo: Alberto Goldman Sergipe: Belivaldo Chagas Silva Tocantins: Paulo Sidnei Antunes

Events

January

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.

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.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.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.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.

June

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.

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.

Deaths

January

January 9: Carmine Furletti president of Cruzeiro January 21: Luiz Carlos Tourinho, actor January 22: Dora Bria, windsurfing champion

February

February 1:

March

March 1: Haroldo de Andrade, radio presenter March 29: Isabella Nardoni, murder victim

April

May

June

June 14: Jamelão, samba singer June 24: Ruth Cardoso, anthropologist, educator and public figure

July

July 11: Breno Mello, footballer and actor July 19: Dercy Gonçalves, comedian

August

September

October

November

December