2007 in Brazil

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Events from the year 2007 in Brazil

Incumbents

• President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• Vice President: José Alencar Gomes da Silva

Events

January

• January 9: YouTube is unblocked in Brazil as a São Paulo state court revises its ruling for Daniela Cicarelli video clips.

February

• February 16: The G8 countries, plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, approve the 'Washington Declaration,' proposing a global Carbon emissions trading system to replace the Kyoto Protocol by 2009.^[1]

March

• March 8: U.S. President George W. Bush departs on a tour of Latin America that will take him to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. Upon arrival in São Paulo he is greeted with protest demonstrations.^[2]

• March 18: Cesare Battisti, convicted in absentia of two murders in Italy in the 1970s and who later became a crime writer in France, is arrested in Brazil.^[3]

April

• April 11: Trade officials from the United States, European Union, India and Brazil meet in New Delhi, India, to revive the World Trade Organization's Doha round of negotiations.

• April 20: The G4 group of nations, which includes Brazil, India, Germany and Japan, says that it would revive efforts for United Nations Security Council reform.^[4][5]

May

• May 9: Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Brazil on his first visit to Latin America to reaffirm Catholicism in the region.^[6]

• May 10: Pope Benedict XVI urges tens of thousands of young Brazilian Catholics packing the Pacaembu stadium in São Paulo to resist the temptations of wealth, power and other "snares of evil," and tells them to promote life from "its beginning to natural end."

• May 11: Pope Benedict XVI canonizes Brazil's first native-born saint, Frei Galvão, an 18th-century Franciscan monk.

• May 22: Silas Rondeau, the Energy Minister of Brazil, resigns over allegations of corruption in a public works project.^[7]

June

• June 26: Bolivia reclaims two oil refineries from Brazilian state-owned energy company Petrobras.^[8]

July

• July 7: The New Seven Wonders of the World are announced. These are The Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil, Machu Picchu in Peru, Mexico's Chichen Itza Mayan site, the Colosseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.^[9]

• July 7: Live Earth gets underway with concerts in Australia, the United States, Germany, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and China.^[10]

• July 10: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announces plans to build a nuclear-powered submarine to patrol the waters off Brazil's coast at a cost of US$500 million.^[11]

• July 13: The Fifteenth Pan American Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• July 15: Brazil defeats Argentina 3-0 in the 2007 Copa América final.^[12]

• July 17: TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 carrying 186 people crashes in Congonhas International Airport, São Paulo, Brazil. The death toll is estimated to be at least 200 people.^{[13][14][15][16][17]}

• July 20: The President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva orders an inquiry into the crash of TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054.

• July 21: A radar failure disrupts international air travel to Brazil causing disruption to thousands of travellers.^[18]

• July 25: The President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva removes Defense Minister Waldir Pires, who is responsible for civil aviation, from his Cabinet and replaces him with former Justice Minister Nelson Jobim after two major crashes in ten months.^[19]

• July 29: Approximately 5,000 Brazilians demonstrate in São Paulo over the recent crash of TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054.^[20]

August

• August 3: Two Cuban boxers, Guillermo Rigondeaux Olympic bantamweight champion and amateur welterweight world champion Erislandi Lara, who deserted their team at the 2007 Pan American Games are found in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and will be sent back to Cuba.^[21]

• August 4: Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim fires the head of the Brazilian airports authority, José Carlos Pereira for recent problems including the crash of TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 and hires Sergio Gaudenzi, the President of the Brazilian Space Agency.^[22]

• August 6: Mexico and Brazil sign an agreement on developing technology for oil and natural gas exploration and exploitation involving co-operation between Pemex and Petrobras.^[23]

• August 7: Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia, Colombian cocaine trafficker boss of the Norte del Valle Cartel is apprehended in Brazil and faces extradition to the United States. The US Government had offered a reward of US$5 million.^[24]

• August 16: The iBovespa falls by 3,500 points in the afternoon session on the São Paulo Stock Exchange. Brazil's stock market recorded its biggest one-day drop since the September 11, 2001 attacks.^[25]

September

• September 3: Tomás Medina Caracas (known by his nom de guerre "Negro Acacio"), one of FARC's most important leaders and the liaison between this Colombian guerrilla and Brazilian drug dealers, is killed in action by Colombian armed forces in Guaviare.^[26]

• September 5: A Congressional committee has voted to remove the President of the Senate of Brazil Renan Calheiros as a result of a corruption scandal.^[27]

• September 24: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that he will defend Brazil's record on global climate change when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly this week.^[28]

• September 24: Brazil's stock market rises to a record 58,393.75 points and the country's currency, the real, gains 0.11 percent to 1.867 per U.S. dollar.

November

• November 4: At least six people are killed as a Learjet 35 crashes into a residential district in São Paulo, Brazil.^[29]

• November 25: At least eight football fans die when part of the Fonte Nova stadium in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, collapses.^[30]

December

• December 2: Brazil starts free-to-air digital television transmissions in São Paulo, but broadcasting companies must transmit signals in both analogue and digital formats until June 2016.^[31]

• December 17: The leaders of Brazil, Bolivia, and Chile agree to build a highway by 2009 that will link the Atlantic (in Santos, Brazil) and the Pacific (in Iquique, Chile) coasts of South America.^[32]

Deaths

• February 4: José Carlos Bauer, 81, World Cup footballer.
• March 5: Ivo Lorscheiter, 79, Catholic Bishop and advocate of liberation theology, multiple organ failure.
• April 16: Maria Lenk, 92, Olympic swimmer (1932, 1936), rupture of aortic aneurysm.
• April 17: Nair Bello, 75, actress, heart failure.
• April 29: Octavio Frias, 94, publishing magnate, kidney failure.
• May 6: Enéas Carneiro, 68, politician, leukemia.
• June 1: Marly de Oliveira, 69, poet ("O Mar de Permeio"), multiple organ failure.
• July 17: Paulo Rogério Amoretty Souza, 60, chairman of SCI, attorney for Corinthians, plane crash.
• July 17: Júlio Redecker, 51, leader of the Social Democracy Party, plane crash.
• August 2: Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína.
• October 1: Tetsuo Okamoto, 75, swimmer and Brazil's first Olympic swimming medallist (1952), respiratory failure.
• October 8: Constantine Andreou, 90, painter and sculptor.
• October 12: Paulo Autran, 85, actor, lung cancer.
• October 26: Hans Stern, 85, jeweler, founder of the company H. Stern.
• December 9: Rafael Sperafico, 26, racing driver, race crash.
• December 11: Ottomar Pinto, 76, politician, Governor of Roraima (2004–2007), heart attack.
• December 15: Ryan Gracie, 33, martial artist.
• December 21: Norton Nascimento, 45, actor, heart failure.
• December 23: Aloísio Lorscheider, 83, cardinal, heart failure.
• December 24: Cláudio Camunguelo, 60, composer and singer, diabetes.
• December 27: Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, 94, pretender to the title Emperor of Brazil.
• December 29: Olayr Coan, 48, actor and theater director, car accident.

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