Francisco Correia Weffort (17 May 1937 – 1 August 2021) was a Brazilian political scientist, academic and politician who served as the
Minister of Culture from 1995 until 2002. He was a member of the
Workers' Party. He was also a professor at the
University of São Paulo.
Weffort was born in 1937 in
Quatá
Quatá is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil
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São Paulo. He was educated at the
University of São Paulo. Weffort was married to Helena Severo and had four children.
Weffort died on 1 August 2021, at a hospital in
Rio de Janeiro, aged 84.
[Morre Francisco Weffort, ex-ministro da Cultura, aos 84 anos]
He had undergone heart surgery at the time of his death.
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