2008 in Brazil
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Events from the year 2008 in Brazil .
Incumbents
[edit ]Federal government
[edit ]Governors
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]January
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- November 3 : Banks Itaú and Unibanco merge into Itaú Unibanco.[10]
Deaths
[edit ]January
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- March 1: Haroldo de Andrade, radio presenter (b. 1934)
- March 29: Isabella Nardoni, murder victim (b. 2002)
April
[edit ]- April 21: Carmen Silva, actress (b. 1916)
May
[edit ]- May 17: Zélia Gattai, writer and wife of Jorge Amado (b. 1916)
June
[edit ]- June 14: Jamelão, samba singer (b. 1913)
- June 24: Ruth Cardoso, anthropologist, educator and public figure (b. 1930)[11]
July
[edit ]- July 11: Breno Mello, footballer and actor (b. 1931)
- July 19: Dercy Gonçalves, comedian (b. 1907)
August
[edit ]- August 16: Dorival Caymmi, singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
September
[edit ]- September 4:
- Waldick Soriano, singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
- Fernando Torres, actor and voice-over artist (b. 1927)
October
[edit ]- October 19: Arthur Sendas, business magnate (b. 1935)
November
[edit ]- November 3: Lhofei Shiozawa, judoka (b. 1941)
December
[edit ]- December 25: Olívio Aurélio Fazza, Roman Catholic prelate and bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu (b. 1925)
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Polícia recupera quadros do Masp (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (9 de janeiro de 2008).
- ^ Menina cai de prédio e morre; polícia vê crime (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (31 de março de 2008).
- ^ Justiça condena Abadía à prisão (página 9 do caderno Cotidiano), Folha de S.Paulo (2 de abril de 2008).
- ^ "Homenageados delegado do caso Rachel Genofre e Enamorados do Samba". www.curitiba.pr.leg.br. Retrieved 2025年05月02日.
- ^ "Há 15 anos, 'padre dos balões' fazia seu último voo ao desaparecer no Oceano Atlântico". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023年04月21日.
- ^ Terremoto assusta São Paulo (primeira página do 1° caderno), Folha de S.Paulo (23 de abril de 2008).
- ^ 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).
- ^ Mais longo caso de cárcere privado em SP completa 3 dias; negociações prosseguem – Folha de S. Paulo
- ^ Swat teria atirado em seqüestrador, diz especialista em negociações – globo.com
- ^ Dealbook (2008年11月03日). "Brazilian Banks Itau and Unibanco to Merge". DealBook. Retrieved 2020年05月20日.
- ^ "Ruth Cardoso | Brazilian anthropologist and educator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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