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Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to reinstate the country’s culture ministry, which was dismantled by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2019. The Art Newspaper notes that Lula, as the once and future leader is nicknamed, made the promise to restore the ministry a part of his campaign platform. He also vowed to increase funding to the Rouanet Law, a federal tax incentive to provide monies to cultural endeavors that saw funding cut by more than 50 percent under Bolsonaro, who publicly demonized it as promoting corruption.Lula is also tasked with selecting a new
“A country that does not preserve its culture and art will never be a nation.” The strong statement by José Virgílio Leal, director and founder of Instituto Arte no Dique, is the best synthesis of what inspires The End of the Ministry of Culture: Ref