The Palmares Cultural Foundation ( Portuguese : Fundação Cultural Palmares ) is a Brazilian state-owned non-governmental organization which promotes Afro-Brazilian culture.
7-477: The foundation is a Brazilian public entity linked to the Ministry of Culture , established by Federal Law No. 7,668, of August 22, 1988. The entity had its Statute approved by Decree nº 418, of January 10, 1992, and its mission is to comply with the constitutional precepts of reinforcing citizenship, identity, action and memory of the ethnic segments of the groups forming Brazilian society, in addition to promoting
14-415: Is a cabinet -level federal ministry created in 1985, in the first month of president's José Sarney government, dissolved by Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 and reinstated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2023. In April 1990, it was dissolved by president Fernando Collor de Mello and transformed into a Culture Secretary, directly linked to the presidency. This situation was reverted two years later, but, in
21-423: The meantime, in 1991, the law called popularly Lei Rouanet was created by the secretary of Culture, Sérgio Paulo Rouanet. It is a law that allows companies and individuals to sponsor cultural products, up to respectively 4% and 6% of their income tax. It is a law of incentive to the culture, the most important instrument of the ministry, frequently contested. In 1999, president Fernando Henrique Cardoso expanded
28-664: The national civilizing process". The foundation is the initial authority for designating Quilombola communities across Brazil, while the INCRA serves as the final authority for issuing land title to quilombola applicants. Since 2005, the organization was awarded the Order of Rio Branco , granted by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva . Itamar Franco Fernando Henrique Cardoso substitute Ministry of Culture (Brazil) Recent elections The Ministry of Culture of Brazil ( Portuguese : Ministério da Cultura , MinC )
35-703: The occupation of the Gustavo Capanema Palace in Rio de Janeiro, and National Foundation of the Arts ( FUNARTE ) offices in Belo Horizonte, Brasília and São Paulo. Artists such as the singer Otto and Arnaldo Antunes participated in the protests. The Ministry of Culture was reinstated by the Temer government on 23 May 2016, dissolved by Jair Bolsonaro in his first day of presidency and reinstated by
42-518: The right of access to culture and the indispensable action of the State in preserving Afro-Brazilian manifestations. Article 215 of the 1998 Federal Constitution ensures that the "State will guarantee to everyone the full exercise of cultural rights and access to the sources of national culture, and will support and encourage the appreciation and dissemination of popular, indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultural manifestations, and other groups participating in
49-462: The scope of the law, with more financial resources and a reorganization of its structure. Again, in 2003, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva restructured the ministry. The Ministry of Culture was dissolved again on 12 May 2016 by the acting president of Brazil , Michel Temer . Its functions were merged into a new Ministry of Education and Culture. The dissolution of the ministry immediately sparked protests in numerous Brazilian cities, and included
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