2019 in Brazil

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2019 in Brazil
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Events in the year 2019 in Brazil.

Incumbents[]

Federal government[]

Governors[]

Vice governors[]

Events[]

January[]

  • January 1: Inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro as the 38th President of Brazil.[1]
  • January 8: Brazil formally withdraws from the UN's Global Compact for Migration pact, however, Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo says that the country will continue to accept Venezuelan refugees.[2]
  • January 25: The Brumadinho dam disaster, when a mining dam owned by Vale, collapses in Minas Gerais, leaving 203 dead and one hundred and five individuals missing.[3]

February[]

  • February 1: Rodrigo Maia is reelected President of Chamber of Deputies.[4]
  • February 2: Davi Alcolumbre is elected President of Senate.[5]
  • February 6: Heavy rain hits Rio de Janeiro, leaving six people dead and two missing.[6][7]
  • February 8: A fire on Flamengo youth academy training camp leaves ten people dead and three injured in Rio de Janeiro[8]
  • February 11: A helicopter carrying journalist and news anchor Ricardo Boechat crashes in São Paulo, killing both Boechat and the pilot.[9]
  • February 17: Four children die after a landslide in Mauá, São Paulo.[10]

March[]

  • March 13:
    • Two former military police officers are arrested in Brazil for the murders of Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes. One of the suspects was arrested at home, in a Rio de Janeiro gated community where President Jair Bolsonaro also resides. Franco was born in a Rio favela and became a politician and activist against violence in the slums, which are often controlled by paramilitary groups. Her assassination prompted widespread protests.[11]
    • Two men, of 17 and 25 years old, attack a school in the Brazilian city of Suzano, São Paulo, with a revolver and a knife, killing eight and wounding 23 people, among students and staff. The two shooters committed suicide after the attack. Police have found a crossbow, Molotov cocktails and a "suitcase with wires" at the scene.[12]
  • March 21: Former President Michel Temer is arrested as part of an investigation into corruption. Former Governor of Rio de Janeiro Moreira Franco is also arrested.[13]

April[]

May[]

June[]

  • June 20: 3 million evangelicals march in São Paulo For the "March For Jesus".[14][15][16]

July[]

  • July 29: At least 52 people are killed, including sixteen who were beheaded, during a prison riot in Pará, which saw rival gangs battle for five hours.[17]

August[]

September[]

  • The Northeast Brazil oil spill, which worsens in October, begins.

October[]

November[]

  • November 9: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walks out of prison on Friday after his release was ordered by a judge.[18]
  • November 12: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro forms his new party Alliance for Brazil.

December[]

  • December 26: a group called the "Popular Nationalist Insurgency Command of the Large Brazilian Integralist Family" claimed responsibility for a firebombing of the headquarters of comedy group Porta dos Fundos in Rio de Janeiro.[19]

Arts and culture[]

Sports[]

  • 2019 in Brazilian football

Births[]

Deaths[]

January[]

February[]

  • February 6 – Jairo do Nascimento, 72, Brazilian footballer (Corinthians, Coritiba), kidney cancer.
  • February 10 – Daniel Silva dos Santos, 36, Brazilian footballer, cancer.
  • February 11 – Ricardo Boechat, 66, Argentine-born Brazilian journalist (O Globo, O Dia, Jornal do Brasil), helicopter crash.
  • February 13 – Bibi Ferreira, 96, Brazilian actress (Leonora of the Seven Seas, The End of the River) and singer.
  • February 16 – Silvestre Luís Scandián, 87, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí (1975–1981) and Archbishop of Vitória (1984–2004).
  • February 19 – João Paulo dos Reis Veloso, 87, Brazilian economist, Minister of Planning (1969–1979), president of the Institute of Applied Economic Research (1969).
  • February 23 – Douglas, 51, Brazilian-born Swedish scarlet macaw actor (Pippi in the South Seas).
  • February 25
    • Waldo Machado, 84, Brazilian footballer (Fluminense, Valencia, national team).
    • Paulo Nogueira Neto, 96, Brazilian environmentalist, Secretary of the Environment (1974–1986).
    • Nelson Zeglio, 92, Brazilian footballer (Sochaux, CA Paris, ).

March[]

April[]

  • April 7 – Jean Paul Jacob, 81–82, Brazilian-American computer scientist.
  • April 15 – Marcelo Dascal, 78, Brazilian-born Israeli philosopher and linguist.
  • April 19 – MC Sapão, 40, singer, pneumonia.[21]
  • April 20 – Valdiram, 36, Brazilian footballer (CR Vasco da Gama), beaten.
  • April 21 –  [pt], 81, professor, translator (Paul Zumthor) and essayist, Prêmio Jabuti laureate (1993), cancer.[22]
  • April 25 – Dirceu Krüger, 74, Brazilian footballer (Coritiba), heart attack.
  • April 26 – Zé do Carmo, 85, Brazilian ceramist, heart attack.
  • April 28
    • Caroline Bittencourt, 37, Brazilian model, drowned.
    • Maurício Peixoto, 98, Brazilian engineer and mathematician.
  • April 29 – José Rodrigues Neto, 69, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo, Ferro Carril Oeste, national team), thrombosis.
  • April 30 – Beth Carvalho, 72, Brazilian samba singer (Estação Primeira de Mangueira).

May[]

  • May 11 –  [pt], 92, Brazilian actor and comedian, respiratory failure.
  • May 14 – Urbano José Allgayer, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Passo Fundo (1982–1999).
  • May 18 – Ney da Matta, 52, Brazilian football manager (Ipatinga, Brasiliense, CRAC), pancreatitis.
  • May 25 – Lady Francisco, 84, Brazilian actress.
  • May 27 – Gabriel Diniz, 28, Brazilian singer and composer, plane crash.

June[]

  • June 2 – Gabi Costa, 33, Brazilian actress (Nada Será Como Antes), cardiorespiratory arrest.
    •  [pt], 34, Brazilian film director and actress, brain tumor.
    • Luisinho Lemos, 67, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
  • June 3
    •  [pt], 86, Brazilian actress.
    •  [pt], 86, Brazilian architect.
  • June 7
    •  [pt], 85, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter, multiple organ failure.
    •  [pt], 87, Brazilian film director, actor and screenwriter.
  • June 8 – Andre Matos, 47, Brazilian singer (Viper, Angra, Shaman), heart attack.
  • June 9 – Rafael Miguel, 22, Brazilian actor (Chiquititas), shot.
  • June 14 –  [pt] 76, Brazilian journalist (Folha de S. Paulo), heart attack.
  • June 17 – Moacyr Grechi, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto Velho (1998–2011).
  • June 19 –  [pt], 74, Brazilian film critic.
  • June 22
    • Thalles, 24, Brazilian football player (Vasco da Gama, Ponte Preta, ), traffic collision.
    • Paulo Pagni [pt], 61, Brazilian drummer (RPM), pulmonary fibrosis.
  • June 28 – Mário Jorge da Fonseca Hermes, 92, Brazilian basketball player.
  • June 29 – , 21, Brazilian basketball player (Bauru), jet ski accident

July[]

  • July 6
    • João Gilberto, 88, Brazilian singer-songwriter.
    •  [pt], 83, Brazilian journalist (O Globo), lawyer and sociologist.
  • July 7 –  [pt], 93, Brazilian poet, complications from a fall.
  • July 8 – Tunica Teixeira, 69, Brazilian sound designer and musical producer, cancer.
  • July 10 – Paulo Henrique Amorim, 77, Brazilian journalist.
  • July 28 – Ruth de Souza, 98, Brazilian actress.

August[]

  • August 2 – Gildo Cunha do Nascimento, 79, Brazilian footballer (Palmeiras, Flamengo, Paranaense).
  • August 9 – Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, 81, Brazilian footballer (Fluminense, national team).
  • August 12 – João Carlos Barroso, 69, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer.
  • August 23 – Kito Junqueira, 71, Brazilian actor (Eternamente Pagú) and politician.
  • August 25 – Fernanda Young, 49, Brazilian novelist, screenwriter and actress (Os Normais), cardiac arrest.
  • August 26 – Walmir Alberto Valle, 81, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zé Doca (1991–2002) and Joaçaba (2003–2010), cancer.

September[]

  • September 1 – Alberto Goldman, 81, Brazilian politician, MP (1979–2006), Minister of Transport (1992–1993) and Governor of São Paulo (2010–2011), cancer.
  • September 4 –  [pt], 89, Brazilian MPB and samba singer, pneumonia.
  • September 7 –  [pt], 88, Brazilian actor.
  • September 15 – Roberto Leal, 67, Portuguese-Brazilian singer, skin cancer.
  • September 28 – Franco Cuter, 79, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grajaú (1998–2016).

October[]

  • October 8 – Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Belo Horizonte (1986–2004), complications from pneumonia.
  • October 13 – Elias James Manning, 81, American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Valença (1990–2014).
  • October 16 – Lázaro de Mello Brandão [pt], 93, banker and businessman, President of Banco Bradesco (1981–2017).[23]
  • October 24 – Walter Franco, 74, Brazilian singer and composer, stroke.
  • October 25 – Mário Sabino, 47, Brazilian Olympic judoka (2000, 2004), shot.
  • October 30 – Ercílio Turco, 81, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Limeira (1989–2002) and Osasco (2002–2014), cancer.

November[]

  • November 1 – Ary Kara, 77, Brazilian politician, Deputy (1983–2007), cancer.
  • November 3 – Girônimo Zanandréa, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop (1987–1994) and Bishop of Erexim (1994–2012).
  • November 17 – Tuka Rocha, 36, Brazilian race car driver, plane crash.
  • November 18 –  [pt], 65, Brazilian singer, lung cancer.
  • November 20 – Fábio Barreto, 62, Brazilian film director (Lula, Son of Brazil, O Quatrilho), complications from a traffic collision.
  • November 22 – Gugu Liberato, 60, Brazilian television presenter, fall.
  • November 22 – Henry Sobel, 75, Portuguese-born Brazilian-American reform rabbi, cancer.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "O presidente Jair Bolsonaro recebe a Faixa Presidencial". Agência Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  2. ^ "Brazil quits U.N. migration pact, will still take in Venezuelan refugees: source". Reuters. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  3. ^ "Brumadinho dam collapse: 'Little hope' of finding missing in Brazil". BBC. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  4. ^ "Rodrigo Maia é reeleito presidente e comandará Câmara até 2021". G1 (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  5. ^ "Após desistência de Renan e duas votações, Davi Alcolumbre é eleito presidente do Senado em 1º turno". G1 (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 2, 2019.
  6. ^ "Temporal no Rio mata 3 pessoas, derruba árvores, alaga ruas e hotel". G1 (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  7. ^ "Sobe para seis o número de mortos em decorrência das chuvas no Rio". UOL (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  8. ^ "Atletas da base do Flamengo morrem em incêndio no CT Ninho do Urubu". G1 (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 8, 2019.
  9. ^ "Ricardo Boechat: Brazil news anchor dies in helicopter crash". BBC. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
  10. ^ "Quatro crianças são encontradas mortas em Mauá em desabamentos após temporal". G1 (in Portuguese). Retrieved February 17, 2019.
  11. ^ "Brazil: two ex-police officers arrested over murder of Marielle Franco". The Guardian. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  12. ^ "Dupla ataca escola em Suzano, mata oito pessoas e se suicida". G1 (in Portuguese). Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  13. ^ "Michel Temer: Brazil ex-president arrested in corruption probe". BBC. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  14. ^ https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/brazil-evangelicals-jesus-march-millions
  15. ^ https://www.christianpost.com/news/3-million-christians-rally-brazil-proclaim-gospel-pray-end-corruption.html
  16. ^ http://evangelicalfocus.com/world/4549/The_March_for_Jesus_gathers_millions_in_Brazil
  17. ^ "Brazil jail riot in Para state leaves 52 dead as gangs fight". BBC. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  18. ^ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/brazil-judge-orders-president-lula-released-prison-191108192957297.html
  19. ^ "Brazil police investigate fire-bombing of 'gay Jesus' film office". BBC. December 26, 2019. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  20. ^ João Carlos Marinho, autor de 'O Gênio do Crime', morre aos 83 anos, em São Paulo (in Portuguese)
  21. ^ Morre MC Sapão, expoente do funk carioca dos anos 2000 (in Portuguese)
  22. ^ Morre a professora e ensaísta Jerusa Pires Ferreira aos 81 anos (in Portuguese)
  23. ^ Ex-presidente do Bradesco, Lázaro Brandão morre aos 93 anos (in Portuguese)

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