2017 in Brazil
overview of Brazil-related events during the year of 2017
Events in the year 2017 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Michel Temer
Vice president: Vacant
Governors
Acre: Tião Viana
Alagoas: Renan Filho
Amapa: Waldez Góes
Amazonas:
José Melo (until 9 May)
David Almeida (9 May-4 October)
Amazonino Mendes (from 4 October)
Bahia: Rui Costa
Ceará: Camilo Santana
Espírito Santo: Paulo Hartung
Goiás: Marconi Perillo
Maranhão: Flávio Dino
Mato Grosso: Pedro Taques
Mato Grosso do Sul: Reinaldo Azambuja
Minas Gerais: Fernando Damata Pimentel
Pará: Simão Jatene
Paraíba: Ricardo Coutinho
Paraná: Beto Richa
Pernambuco: Paulo Câmara
Piauí: Wellington Dias
Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Fernando Pezão
Rio Grande do Norte: Robinson Faria
Rio Grande do Sul: José Ivo Sartori
Rondônia: Confúcio Moura
Roraima: Suely Campos
Santa Catarina: Raimundo Colombo
São Paulo: Geraldo Alckmin
Sergipe: Jackson Barreto
Tocantins: Marcelo Miranda
Vice governors
Acre: Maria Nazareth Melo de Araújo Lambert
Alagoas: José Luciano Barbosa da Silva
Amapá: João Bosco Papaléo Paes
Amazonas:
José Henrique Oliveira (until 4 October)
João Bosco Gomes Saraiva (from 4 October)
Bahia: João Leão
Ceará: Maria Izolda Cela de Arruda Coelho
Espírito Santo: César Roberto Colnago
Goiás: José Eliton de Figueiredo Júnior
Maranhão: Carlos Orleans Brandão Júnior
Mato Grosso:
Carlos Henrique Baqueta Fávaro (until 5 April)
Vacant thereafter
Mato Grosso do Sul: Rose Modesto
Minas Gerais: Antônio Eustáquio Andrade Ferreira
Pará: José da Cruz Marinho
Paraíba: Lígia Feliciano
Paraná:
Maria Aparecida Borghetti (until 6 April)
Vacant thereafter
Pernambuco: Raul Jean Louis Henry Júnior
Piaui: Margarete de Castro Coelho
Rio de Janeiro: Francisco Dornelles
Rio Grande do Norte: Fábio Dantas
Rio Grande do Sul: José Paulo Dornelles Cairoli
Rondônia: Daniel Pereira
Roraima: Paulo César Justo Quartiero
Santa Catarina: Eduardo Pinho Moreira
São Paulo: Márcio França
Sergipe: Belivaldo Chagas Silva
Tocantins: Cláudia Telles de Menezes Pires Martins Lelis
Events
January
January 2: At least 56 people are killed in a prison riot in Manaus at the Anisio Jobim penitentiary complex in Amazonas.
January 6: Members of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) prison gang kill 31 inmates at the Monte Cristo Agricultural Penitentiary in Roraima, in revenge for an earlier massacre in Amazonas that killed 56 inmates.
January 13: Police raid multiple Rio de Janeiro locations in an investigation of Caixa Econômica Federal lending practices.
January 15:
At least 10 inmates are killed in a prison riot between rival gangs in Natal.
Another 33 prisoners are killed in a fresh outbreak of violence at Alcacuz prison in Rio Grande do Norte.
January 19: A small plane carrying Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki crashes into the sea near the tourist town of Paraty; killing the magistrate and four other people. Zavascki had been handling the politically-charged, Operation Car Wash corruption trials.
January 21: Brazilian police enter the Alcacuz prison outside of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte after a week of fighting left 26 inmates dead. At least 126 people have been killed in Brazil's prisons since the beginning of the year.
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