Porto Velho/RO – The movement that began last week, seeking the liberation of resources to assist the Indians´ need that live in Rondônia, should continue until the leaders get a positive answer from the Federal Government. They want the advancement of a found supplement to cover expenses with suppliers in the whole State. If they are not assisted, the Indians promise to close the highway 364 next Wednesday, 4th.
The protest for the liberation of resources began on Thursday of last week, with the stoppage of the administrative activities in the headquarters of Funai in several municipal towns. It was intensified with the closing of the highway 230 (trans Amazonian) and in the beginning of next week representatives of eight etnias that live in Rondônia disembark in Brasília to try an audience with the minister of the Justice Marcos Thomaz Bastos.
Now about 150 Indians fill the lodging of Funai in Porto Velho. Still on this Friday, 29th, more 60 natives should join the crowd round the headquarters of Funai and they count with the representatives´ of NGOs aid to feed themselves. We are receiving support so that the movement doesn´t weak ´, says Clóvis Kassupá, cacique of the tribe Kassupá, etnia that lives in the area of Guajará-Mirim, in Rondônia.
According to Kassupá, the largest difficulty that the natives find now is the lack of transport. ´Many are coming to ´Porto Velho taking lifts, he points out. The difficulty has an explanation. Only to gas stations Funai owes about R$ 100 thousand. The discharges debts impede the suppliers of continuing giving up products and services.
Reflexes
The natives´ total debt in the rondoniense market gets to R$ 600 thousand. The reflexes have already been felt in the agriculture. Some etnias didn´t re-do the plantations during the summer, due to lack of agricultural equipments and seeds.
The problem of the lack of resources is not reflected in the indigenous health, because recently they were correspondents R$ 1, 5 million for attendance in this area, through the National Foundation of Health (Funasa).
According to Humberto Terena, coordinator of the Federation of the Indigenous Organization in Rondônia (Foir), the lack of resources for the native repeated in the whole Country. Rondônia didn´t count with budget for the indigenous area in 2006.
The 400 Indians of four etnias of the area of Humaitá (AM), who were positioned in the kilometer 150 of the highway 230 (trans Amazonian), on this Tuesday, they continue obstructing the passage of transports in the place.