2025 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President
• * Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• Vice President
• * Geraldo Alckmin
• President of the Chamber of Deputies
• * Arthur Lira
• * Hugo Motta
• President of the Federal Senate
• * Rodrigo Pacheco
• * Davi Alcolumbre
• President of the Supreme Federal Court
• * Luís Roberto Barroso

  Events

January

• January 6 – At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, Fernanda Torres becomes the first Brazilian actress to win the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama.
• January 10 – Two members of the Landless Workers Movement are killed in an attack in Tremembé, São Paulo State.
• January 12 – Ten people are reported killed in landslides caused by heavy rains across Minas Gerais, including nine in Ipatinga.
• January 13 – A law restricting the usage of smartphones in schools nationwide comes into effect.
• January 17 – Six suspected bank robbers are killed in a police raid on a ranch in Ponta Grossa, Parana State.

  February

• February 7 – A Beechcraft King Air aircraft crashes into a bus in the Barra Funda district of São Paulo, killing two people.
• February 12 – A fire guts a factory in Rio de Janeiro producing costumes for the Rio Carnival, injuring 21 people.
• February 15 – A light aircraft crashes in Quadra, São Paulo, killing two people.
• February 19 – Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk: Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes imposes a fine of 8.1 million Brazilian reais on X for refusing to provide registration data for a profile attributed to an ally of former president Jair Bolsonaro accused of spreading disinformation.
• February 20 – A bus carrying students of the University of Franca collides with a truck near Nuporanga, São Paulo, killing 12 people and injuring 21 others.
• February 21 – Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the suspension of Rumble for refusing to remove the account of an ally of former president Jair Bolsonaro accused of spreading disinformation and failing to name a legal representative in Brazil.

  March

• March 2 – I'm Still Here, directed by Walter Salles, becomes the first Brazilian film to win at the Academy Awards after being recognized as Best International Feature Film.
• March 6 – School closures are implemented in parts of Rio Grande do Sul due to a heatwave.
• March 10 – Four people are killed in a fire at a homeless shelter in Sao Jose dos Campos.
• March 11 – The National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil suspends the operating license of Voepass over the crash of Voepass Flight 2283 in 2024.
• March 15 – Aleson Cristiano de Oliveira Fonseca and Fabio Pirineus da Silva are sentenced to up to 23 years' imprisonment over the murder of Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe in 2022.
• March 22–30 – 2025 Copa América de Futsal Femenina
• March 24 – The federal government issues an apology over the discovery in 1990 of a mass grave in the Cemitério de Perus in which people killed during the Brazilian military dictatorship were secretly buried.
• March 26 – The Supreme Federal Court orders former president Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his associates to stand trial over the 2022 Brazilian coup plot.
• March 31 – The Brazilian government admits that the Brazilian Intelligence Agency had conducted espionage on Paraguayan officials during the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro.

  April

• April 4 – A bus carrying students and faculty of the Federal University of Santa Maria crashes in Imigrante, Rio Grande do Sul, killing seven people.
• April 8 –
• *A bus overturns in Araguari, Minas Gerais, killing 11 people.
• *Juscelino Filho resigns as communications minister after charges of corruption are filed against him over the misuse of public funds in a road paving project when he was a federal deputy for Maranhão.
• April 25 – Former president Fernando Collor de Mello is arrested in Alagoas after his conviction for corruption as part of Operation Car Wash is upheld by Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes.
• April 28 – Supreme Federal Court justice Flávio Dino orders the federal government to seize property from private individuals found to be responsible for illegal deforestation and wildfires, and orders an end to the legalization of ownership of illegally-acquired land.

  May

• May 2 – Carlos Lupi resigns as social security minister after a police investigation reveals long-term embezzlement of pension funds by the Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social.
• May 4 – Police announce the arrest of two people on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack on a concert by Lady Gaga at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro the previous day.
• May 15 – A court in Rio de Janeiro dismisses Ednaldo Rodrigues as president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, citing "possible forgery" in his employment contract.
• May 16 –
• *The first case of avian influenza in a commercial farm in Brazil is discovered in Rio Grande do Sul.
• *Marcos Roberto de Almeida, a leader of the Primeiro Comando da Capital, is arrested in Bolivia.
• May 28 – Azul Brazilian Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States.

  June

• June 3 – President Lula signs a law increasing the quota for government jobs reserved for Afro-Brazilians from 20% to 30% and adding Indigenous people and descendants of enslaved people as beneficiaries.
• 10 June – Brazil qualifies for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after defeating Paraguay 1-0 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification in São Paulo.
• 18 June – Two people are killed following heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul.
• 21 June – 2025 Santa Catarina hot air balloon crash: A hot-air balloon crashes after caught fire in Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, killing eight of the 21 people on board.
• 25 June – Congress nullifies a decree by President Lula to raise a financial transactions tax, the first time the legislature has struck down a presidential decree since 1992.
• 26 June – The federal government formally admits responsibility for the death of journalist and dissident Vladimir Herzog in custody during the military dictatorship in 1975.

  July

• July 3 – A cyberattack is made on the software company C&M, which affects the instant payment system Pix and results in the theft of more than 540 million reais.
• 6–7 July – 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro.
• 8 July – A child is killed and two others are injured in a mass stabbing attack at a school in Estação, Rio Grande do Sul.
• 13 July – The Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park is designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
• 18 July – Political ineligibility of Jair Bolsonaro: The Supreme Federal Court places former president Bolsonaro on nightly house arrest and orders him to wear an electronic ankle bracelet. They also forbid him from approaching embassies, foreign ambassadors, and diplomats.
• 24 July – Brazil officially confirms it will join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
• 30 July –
• *The United States imposes a 50% tariff on Brazilian exports and sanctions Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes on charges of suppressing freedom of expression and authorizing "arbitrary pre-trial detentions".
• *Two Embraer A29 Super Tucanos of the Brazilian Air Force collide mid-air over Porto Ferreira, São Paulo. One of the planes crashes, with its pilot safely ejecting, while the other lands without incident.

  August

• 8 August –
• *President Lula partially vetoes a bill that would have reduced federal authority in issuing project licenses and fast-tracked projects in the Amazon Basin. The vetoes are mostly overturned by Congress on 27 November.
• *Four people are arrested in police raids in Vila Kennedy, Rio de Janeiro against an illegal ride-hailing app operated by Comando Vermelho.
• *A bus and a truck collide near Lucas do Rio Verde, Mato Grosso, killing 11 people and injuring 45 others.
• 12 August – Nine people are killed in an explosion at an explosives factory in Curitiba.
• 18 August– The Supreme Federal Court rules that foreign court decisions are only enforceable in Brazil "upon approval or in compliance with international judicial cooperation mechanisms" amid sanctions imposed by the United States.

  September

• 4 September – Eight members of the Terceiro Comando Puro are killed in a shootout with police in Rio de Janeiro.
• 11 September – The Supreme Federal Court convicts former president Jair Bolsonaro of instigating the 2022 Brazilian coup plot and sentences him to 27 years' imprisonment.
• 15 September – The former São Paulo Civil Police chief Ruy Ferraz Fontes, the first to investigate the activities of the Primeiro Comando da Capital, is murdered in Praia Grande.
• 16 September –
• *Brazil, as a member of Mercosur, signs a free trade agreement with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
• *Forty-five people are arrested, while 700 animals are rescued nationwide in the largest police operation against wildlife trafficking in the country.
• *A court in the United States dismisses a lawsuit filed by the Marúbo people residing in the Vale do Javari against The New York Times and TMZ accusing the media outlets of smearing them over their first usage of the Internet, saying that their reporting was covered by free speech.
• 19 September – Brazil officially joins South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
• 22 September – The United States imposes sanctions on Judge Alexandre de Moraes' wife, Viviane Barci de Moraes, over the prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro.
• 23 September – 2025 Aquidauana Cessna 175 crash: A light aircraft crashes in Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul, killing, four people including Chinese architect Kongjian Yu.
• 24 September – The Federal Senate votes down a bill that would have expanded criminal immunity for lawmakers following massive protests nationwide.
• 25 September – Two teenagers are killed in a shooting outside a school in Sobral, Ceará.