The Ministry of Culture ( es, Ministerio de Cultura) of
Argentina
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is a
ministry
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of the
national executive power that oversees the government's public policy on the
culture of Argentina
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.
The culture portfolio was first established in 1973 during the presidency of
Héctor Cámpora
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as part of the responsibilities of the
Ministry of Culture and Education; the first minister responsible was
Jorge Alberto Taiana. The ministry existed only briefly before being demoted to a Secretariat. It would remain under the scope of the broader Ministry of Education until 2014, when it was re-established by President
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
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. Its current minister is, since 10 December 2019 and in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández, Tristán Bauer.
History
The culture portfolio was first established as the
Ministry of Culture and Education on 25 May 1973 upon the accession to the presidency of
Héctor Cámpora
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; the first minister responsible was the physician and Justicialist Party politician
Jorge Alberto Taiana. Taiana remained in office through the resignation of Cámpora, the interim presidency of Raúl Lastiri, the brief third presidency of Juan Domingo Perón and part of the presidency of Isabel Perón, and was succeeded by Oscar Ivanissevich in 1974.
During the National Reorganization Process, last military dictatorship (1976–1983) the issue of culture and education was left, for the most part, in the hands of civilians. Upon the return of democracy in 1983, President Raúl Alfonsín mandated the creation of the Secretariat of Culture as a dependency of the Ministry of Education and Justice; the first Secretary was Carlos Gorostiza.
In 2014, President
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (; born 19 February 1953), often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who has served as the Vice President of Argentina since 2019. She also served as the President ...
announced the establishment of a ministry dedicated exclusively to culture, with singer-songwriter Teresa Parodi being appointed to the new position. The ministry was again demoted to a Secretariat under the Ministry of Education with the cabinet reorganization imposed by President Mauricio Macri in September 2018, but this would be undone by the new administration of President Alberto Fernández upon its arrival to power in 2019.
Attributions
The attributions and responsibilities of the Ministry of Culture are specified in Article 23, section 5 of the current Law on Ministries (''Ley de Ministerios''), published in 2019.
According to this law, the Ministry is in charge of assisting the President of Argentina and the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers in all matters pertaining to culture, as well as designing and executing public policy, planning, programs and projects to stimulate and favor culture; elaborating and promoting policies that strengthen Argentina's cultural identities, promoting policies destined to the development of the economic activity of the cultural industry, directing policies of conservation and protection of Argentina's cultural heritage, promoting policies that safeguard cultural diversity, among others.
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Structure and dependencies
The Ministry of Culture counts with a number of centralized and decentralized dependencies. The centralized dependencies, as in other government ministers, are known as secretariats (''secretarías'') and undersecretariats (''subsecretarías''); there are currently three of these:
Headquarters
The Ministry of Culture is headquartered in the :es:Palacio Casey, Casey Palace, a residential manor originally built for the Irish Argentine businessman Eduardo Casey. The building was designed by the United States-born architect Carlos Ryder and finished in 1889.[ It is located at the intersection of Avenida Alvear, Alvear Avenue and Rodríguez Peña street, in the Buenos Aires ''Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires, barrio'' of Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Recoleta.]
List of Ministers
References
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Government ministries of Argentina, Culture
Culture ministries, Argentina
Argentine culture
2014 establishments in Argentina
Ministries established in 2014, Argentina