Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage (Chile)

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Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage
Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio
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Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Valparaíso 20200207 13.jpg
Ministry headquarters in Valparaíso.
Agency overview
FormedMarch 1, 2018
Preceding agency
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Chile
HeadquartersPlaza Sotomayor
Valparaíso
Employees2 018 (2018)[1]
Annual budget198 193 425 miles de CLP (2020)[2]
Ministers responsible
  • Consuelo Valdés Chadwick, Minister of Culture
  • Juan Carlos Silva Aldunate, Undersecretary of Cultures and Arts
  • Emilio de la Cerda, Undersecretary of Cultural Heritage
Websitecultura.gob.cl (in Spanish)

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
Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Pablo Neruda 2015 - Ernesto Ottone.jpg Ernesto Ottone March 1, 2018 March 11, 2018 IND Michelle Bachelet
ALEJANDRA PEREZ.jpg Alejandra Pérez Lecaros March 11, 2018 August 9, 2018 Sebastián Piñera
Mauricio Rojas Mullor (official portrait).png Mauricio Rojas August 9, 2018 August 13, 2018
Consuelo Valdés Ministra de las Culturas 2018.jpg Consuelo Valdés March 13, 2018 March 11, 2022
Julieta Brodsky March 11, 2022 Incumbent CS Gabriel Boric
IND: Independent
CS: Social Convergence

References[]

  1. ^ Chilean Budget Office. "Estadísticas de Recursos Humanos del Sector Público 2011–2018" [Public Sector Human Resources Statistics 2011–2018] (PDF). Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  2. ^ Chilean Budget Office. "Ley de presupuestos del sector público Año 2020" [Public Sector Budget Law 2020] (PDF). Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "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.

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