Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage (Chile)
Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio | |
Ministry headquarters in Valparaíso. | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | March 1, 2018 |
Preceding agency |
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Type | Ministry |
Jurisdiction | Government of Chile |
Headquarters | Plaza Sotomayor Valparaíso |
Employees | 2 018 (2018)[1] |
Annual budget | 198 193 425 miles de CLP (2020)[2] |
Ministers responsible |
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Website | cultura |
The Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage (Mincap) is the Ministry of the State of Chile in charge of the design, formulation and implementation of cultural policies, plans and programs. Its main headquarters are in Valparaíso, in a building located in Plaza Sotomayor, being the only secretariat of the Chilean State whose national address isn't located in Santiago. The current head of the ministry is Consuelo Valdés Chadwick.
It was created by Law 21045, promulgated on October 13, 2017[3] and published in the Official Gazette on November 3 of the same year.[4] The Ministry began its functions on March 1, 2018,[5] being the legal successor – through its two undersecretaries: the Undersecretariat of Cultures and the Arts and the Undersecretariat of Cultural Heritage — [6] of the National Council of Culture and the Arts, an institution created in 2003 and dependent on the Ministry of Education (Mineduc).[4]
List of ministers[]
Picture | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Notes | Appointed by |
Ernesto Ottone | March 1, 2018 | March 11, 2018 | IND | Michelle Bachelet | |
Alejandra Pérez Lecaros | March 11, 2018 | August 9, 2018 | Sebastián Piñera | ||
Mauricio Rojas | August 9, 2018 | August 13, 2018 | |||
Consuelo Valdés | March 13, 2018 | March 11, 2022 | |||
Julieta Brodsky | March 11, 2022 | Incumbent | CS | Gabriel Boric |
- IND: Independent
- CS: Social Convergence
References[]
- ^ Chilean Budget Office. "Estadísticas de Recursos Humanos del Sector Público 2011–2018" [Public Sector Human Resources Statistics 2011–2018] (PDF). Retrieved May 22, 2020.
- ^ Chilean Budget Office. "Ley de presupuestos del sector público Año 2020" [Public Sector Budget Law 2020] (PDF). Retrieved May 22, 2020.
- ^ "Presidenta Bachelet y Ministro Ottone encabezan promulgación del Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio" [President Bachelet and Minister Ottone lead the promulgation of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage]. cultura.gob.cl (in Spanish). October 13, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ a b "Law 21045 03-NOV-2017 Ministry of Education – Ley Chile – Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional". Ley Chile (in Spanish). November 3, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ "Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y Patrimonio entrará en vigencia este jueves" [Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage will go into effect this Thursday]. La Tercera (in Spanish). February 28, 2018. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
- ^ "Mañana entra en vigencia el Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio" [Tomorrow the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage takes effect]. cultura.gob.cl (in Spanish). February 28, 2018. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
External links[]
- Official website (in Spanish)
- Government ministries of Chile
- Culture ministries
- Ministries established in 2018
- 2018 establishments in Chile