Palmares Cultural Foundation

The Palmares Cultural Foundation (Portuguese: Fundação Cultural Palmares) is a Brazilian state-owned non-governmental organization which promotes Afro-Brazilian culture.

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 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 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.

Presidents

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Name Period President
Carlos Alves Moura 1988 — 1990 José Sarney
Adão Ventura 1990 — 1994 Fernando Collor

Itamar Franco

Joel Rufino dos Santos 1994 — 1996 Itamar Franco

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Dulce Pereira 1996 — 2000 Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Carlos Alves Moura 2000 — 2002
Ubiratan Castro de Araújo 2003 — 2007 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Zulu Araújo 2007 — 2010
Eloi Ferreira 2011 — 2013 Dilma Rousseff
Hilton Cobra 2013 — 2015
Cida Abreu 2015 — 2016
Erivaldo Oliveira 2016 — 2019 Michel Temer
Vanderlei Lourenço 2019 Jair Bolsonaro
Sérgio Nascimento de Camargo 2019 — 2022
Marco Antônio Evangelista da Silva

substitute

2022
João Jorge Rodriguês 2023 — current Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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