2008 in Brazil

Events from the year 2008 in Brazil.

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

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.

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 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

 * 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.

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 3: Banks Itaú and Unibanco merge into Itaú Unibanco.

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)

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)