1993 in Brazil

Events in the year 1993 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Itamar Franco^[1]
• Vice President: vacant

Governors

• Acre: Vacant
• Alagoas: Geraldo Bulhões
• Amapa: Annibal Barcellos
• Amazonas: Gilberto Mestrinho
• Bahia: Antônio Carlos Magalhães
• Ceará: Ciro Gomes
• Espírito Santo: Albuíno Cunha de Azeredo
• Goiás: Iris Rezende
• Maranhão: Edison Lobão
• Mato Grosso: Jaime Campos
• Mato Grosso do Sul: Pedro Pedrossian
• Minas Gerais: Hélio Garcia
• Pará: Jader Barbalho
• Paraíba: Ronaldo Cunha Lima
• Paraná: Roberto Requião de Mello e Silva
• Pernambuco: Joaquim Francisco Cavalcanti
• Piauí: Freitas Neto
• Rio de Janeiro: Leonel Brizola
• Rio Grande do Norte: José Agripino Maia
• Rio Grande do Sul: Alceu de Deus Collares
• Rondônia: Oswaldo Piana Filho
• Roraima: Ottomar de Sousa Pinto
• Santa Catarina: Vilson Kleinübing
• São Paulo: Luís Antônio Fleury Filho
• Sergipe: João Alves Filho
• Tocantins: Moisés Nogueira Avelino

Vice governors

• Acre: Vacant
• Alagoas: Francisco Roberto Holanda de Melo
• Amapá: Ronaldo Pinheiro Borges
• Amazonas: Francisco Garcia Rodrigues
• Bahia: Paulo Souto
• Ceará: Lúcio Gonçalo de Alcântara
• Espírito Santo: Adelson Antônio Salvador
• Goiás: Luís Alberto Maguito Vilela
• Maranhão: José de Ribamar Fiquene
• Mato Grosso: Osvaldo Roberto Sobrinho
• Mato Grosso do Sul: Ary Rigo
• Minas Gerais: Arlindo Porto Neto
• Pará: Carlos José Oliveira Santos
• Paraíba: Cícero Lucena Filho
• Paraná: Mário Pereira
• Pernambuco: Carlos Roberto Guerra Fontes
• Piauí: Guilherme Cavalcante de Melo
• Rio de Janeiro: Nilo Batista
• Rio Grande do Norte: Vivaldo Costa
• Rio Grande do Sul: João Gilberto Lucas Coelho
• Rondônia: Assis Canuto
• Roraima: Antônio Airton Oliveira Dias
• Santa Catarina: Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
• São Paulo: Aloysio Nunes
• Sergipe: José Carlos Mesquita Teixeira
• Tocantins: Paulo Sidnei Antunes

Events

February

• February 4: President Itamar Franco signs a law that regulates the plebiscite on the form and system of government in Brazil.^[2]

April

• April 21: Eight years after democracy is restored in the country, Brazil holds a constitutional referendum about what form of government and regime the country would go on with. Voters could choose between a republican or monarchic government, and between a presidential or parliamentary regime. The result was 86.6% of votes in favour of a republic and 69.2% in favour of presidentialism, leaving the country's form of government, a presidential republic, unchanged.^[3]

May

• May 21: Judge Denise Frossard sentences Castor de Andrade and 13 other big mobsters; including Capitão Guimarães, Luizinho Drummond, Antonio Petrus Kalil (aka Turcão), and Anísio Abraão David to six years in prison for criminal association. 53 deaths were attributed to the group.^[4]

July

• July 23: The Candelária massacre occurs after eight homeless people, including six minors are killed by several men, who were members of the police.^[5]

August

• August 1: The cruzeiro real becomes the national currency of Brazil, replacing the cruzeiro at a rate of 1000 to 1.^[6]
• August 29: Military police in Rio de Janeiro murder twenty-one residents of the Vigário Geral favela.^[7]

October

• October 13-19: American singer Michael Jackson is in São Paulo for his Dangerous World Tour; with two shows at the Morumbi Stadium, on the 15th and 17th of the month.^{[8][9][10][11]}

December

• December 7: Minister of Finance Fernando Henrique Cardoso announces an economic stabilization program.^[12]
• December 17: Brazil's Supreme Federal Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello could not hold elected office again until 2000, due to political corruption.^[13]

Births

January

• January 4 – Manu Gavassi, singer, songwriter, actress, directress and writer

February

• February 12 – Rafinha, footballer

March

• March 5 – Fred, footballer
• March 24 – Gustavo Henrique, footballer
• March 30 – Anitta, singer and dancer^[14]

April

• April 13 – Letícia Bufoni, street skateboarder
• April 15 – Felipe Anderson, footballer
• April 30 – Henry Zaga, actor

June

• June 27:
  • Adair Cardoso, singer and composer
  • Camila Queiroz, actress

August

• August 17:
  • Rodrigo Caio, footballer
  • Ederson, footballer

October

• October 23 – Fabinho, footballer

November

• November 14 – Tabata Amaral, political scientist, education activist and politician

December

• December 16 – Thiago Braz da Silva, Olympic athlete
• December 22 – Gabriel Medina, professional surfer

Deaths

January

• January 13 – Camargo Guarnieri, composer (b. 1907)

April

• April 2 – Thales Monteiro, basketball player and Olympian (b. 1925)
• April 3 – Leopoldo Nachbin, mathematician (b. 1922)
• April 9 – Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, Roman Catholic nun (b. 1953)
• April 25 – Geraldo Del Rey, actor (b. 1930)
• April 30 – Diva Diniz Corrêa, marine zoologist (b. 1918)

September

• September 7 – Bruno Giorgi, sculptor (b. 1905)

December

• December 14 – Aristides Leão, neurophysiologist and researcher (b. 1914)

See also

• 1993 in Brazilian football
• 1993 in Brazilian television