Porto Velho/RO – The Indians that live in Rondônia decided to wait until the 16th, the Federal Government/*s decision in liberating resources so that Funai can pay debts with rondonienses suppliers.
According to Aurélio Tenharin, who is in Brasília accompanying the negotiations, representatives of the Ministry of the Justice have already committed in repassing the money. Even so, a composed commission with seven indigenous of different etnias still probes an audience with the minister of the Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, to try to sensitize him of the need of the liberation of the resource.
They affirm that need at least R$ 1 million for the payment of debts of approximately R$ 600 thousand. The remaining of the money would be to conclude exercise of 2006.
To press the liberation of the resource, which can be possible made by fund supplement, the Indians closed the highway 230 (Trans Amazonian), that ties the Humaitá and Apuí towns, in Amazonas state, part of the highway of the Tin (Machadinho/Apuí) and they threaten to block the highway 364, highway that links the State of Rondônia to the south of the Country and one of the principal roads of productive drainage of the north area.
“We don/*t want to close the highway 364 to harm the population, so we will wait until Monday, but if they don/*t assist we won/*t have other option”, says Orlando Karintiana, indigenous leader in the village Karintiana.
About a thousand Indians were positioned in the proximities of highway 230 and other 250 are piled in the headquarters of Porto Velho/RO and Ji-Paraná/RO/*s Funai. We are living with difficulties in the villages, so we decided to disperse “, explains Valmir Parintintin.
Conflict
The blockade of highway 230 generated, on Monday, an upset among Indians and the gathering of the Army that tried to come back to Humaitá town after supporting in the electoral process in Apuí town.
The troop was impeded of passing and the Indians feeling threatened decided to saw a bridge in the proximities of the kilometer 150. The same soldiers made an improvised bridge, with logs of trees and got the Indians/* liberation so that they returned to the barracks.
According to the indigenous leader Valmir Parintintin, the Indians only liberate the passage for ambulances. Some truck drivers are stopped in the place and bus line had to come back.