Brasília/DF – The indigenous commission that were negotiating in Brasília the liberation of resources for payment of debts of Funai with rondonienses suppliers got a special credit request in the value of R$ 1,7 million by Ministry of the Justice that should be liberated through presidential ordinance in the November.
Beyond that value, the Indians got immediately, special resource in the value of R$ 25 thousand to be used in the inspection of the indigenous patrimony. With the positive answer on the part of the Federal Government, the Indians liberate the highways of the Estanho and the highway 230 (Trans Amazonian) and the administrative activities of Funai are normally on this Monday, 16th.
According to the director of attendance of Funai, Slowacki de Assis, R$ 400 thousand will be destined for accomplishment of productive activities, R$ 400 for operation of indigenous positions, R$ 400 for social attendance and R$ 500 for protection and inspections of the territory.
In Brasília the indigenous commission that negotiated with the government – composed by seven caciques made an appointment for a new audience, after the elections period, with representatives of the Civil House to negotiate the resource that should be destined for Funai in 2007.
As for Adriano Karipuna, indigenous leader of the tribe Karipuna, the Funai in Rondônia will need at least R$ 1, 6 million for costing the next year expenses. The budget for Funai in the whole Country is of R$ 677 million and it is distributed in 64 areas, including Brasília.
Initial request
The Indians initial request was of R$ 1,6 million, but it was just for the administration of Funai in Porto Velho, responsible for an area where there are about 3 thousand Indians living. In the State – including the south part of the Amazonas, administered by Rondônia there are nine thousand Indians living, from 45 different groups.
Damages
With the closing of the highway 230, that ties the Humaitá town to Apuí, in the south of Amazonas and has about 19 thousand inhabitants it has already run of fuel and the electric power has been rationed, which is moved by diesel oil.
According to the lider of the nucleus of Special Operations of the Federal Police in Rondônia, Régis Ramos, the traffic of vehicles in that space of Trans-Amazonian is not intense, about 100 vehicles a day and in the rainiest period – between the months of February and May – it is still fewer, once the highway has not been asphalted yet.