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
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
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.
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)