Culture is identity and also work for artists and technicians. Bolsonaro vetoed the Paulo Gustavo Law in 2022; Congress overrode the veto, and the law funded R$ 3.9 billion in projects across all 27 states.
Far right
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- Reconstrução do ministério é primeira tarefa na área da culturaShows that the Ministry of Culture abolished in 2019 had to be rebuilt after the Bolsonaro government.Read the story
- Artistas vão à Câmara para derrubar vetos de Bolsonaro à culturaArtists mobilized to overturn Bolsonaro's vetoes of culture funding laws.Read the story
- Bolsonaro veta projeto da Lei Paulo Gustavo, que repassaria R$ 3,8 bilhões à CulturaBolsonaro fully vetoed the Paulo Gustavo Law, which would have sent R$ 3.8 billion to culture.Read the story
Sources
Where the data on this page comes from.
- Ministério da Cultura
The ministry was downgraded to a secretariat in 2019 and recreated in 2023; history of the Paulo Gustavo Law.
- Secom (governo federal)
The Paulo Gustavo Law funded R$ 3.9 billion in projects across 27 states.
- Agência Câmara
In April 2022, Bolsonaro vetoed the Paulo Gustavo Law.