On his return from exile in 1979, he joined the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMBD) in 1981, took part in the working group that wrote the Tancredo Neves (1910-1985) government's Action Plan in 1985, and was a member of the Constitutional Studies Commission that gave rise to Brazil's current Constitution. Also because of his ties to the PMDB, he became Minister of Culture in the José Sarney (1930-) government between 1986 and 1988 and was responsible for approving legislation on tax incentives for culture in Brazil. There are undoubtedly traces of the desire of many of the exiles to resume their political activities, which had been repressed since 1964: Furtado still believed in the possibility of improving the distribution of wealth in Brazil by inducing economic development through the state, but now he was focusing his activity on supporting national culture. In the 1980s and 1990s, as well as devoting himself to political activities in Brazil, he held positions at the UN as a member of the World Commission for Culture and Development and the International Bioethics Commission and was also elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras [Brazilian Academy of Letters] in 1997. He lived to write his memoirs and review his career in a style reminiscent of his first confessional work, written after his experience with the FEB in 1945. He died at home in Rio de Janeiro in 2004. The President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945-), decreed three days of official mourning in Brazil.

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