Francisco Weffort
Brazilian political scientist, full professor at the University of São Paulo and former Minister of Culture (1937-2021)
Francisco Correia Weffort (17 May 1937 – 1 August 2021) was a Brazilian academic, political scientist and politician. He was born in Quatá, São Paulo. Weffort was a professor at the Universidade de São Paulo. He was also the Minister of Culture from 1995 until 2002 during the Fernando Henrique Cardoso presidency.
Weffort died on 1 August 2021 at a hospital in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro from heart surgery-related problems, aged 84.[1]
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change- ↑ Morre Francisco Weffort, ex-ministro da Cultura, aos 84 anos (in Portuguese)