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Cacoal/RO – Indians of 23 races liberated, at the 21 hours yesterday, the BR 364. They have had the highway closed for 3 days, in the space that ties from Pimenta Bueno to Cacoal town, in the State of Rondônia and they were there until having the warranty that their demands would be assisted. Among the natives main solicitations it was the regional coordinator of the National Foundation of the Indian discharge (Funai), Orlando Castro Ribeiro and the regional coordinator of the National Foundation of Health (Funasa), Josafá Piahy Marreiro.
The indigenous leaders participated in a meeting, yesterday afternoon, in Cacoal city hall, with the Mayoress Sueli Aragão, the senator Valdir Raupp and the federal deputy Marinha Raupp, all members of the PMDB party. The Indians demanded from the authorities the discharge of the regional coordinator of Funasa, Josafá Marreiro, because he had been indicated for the position by the supported of the party. After about 3 hours of negotiations, Sueli Aragão announced that she would have phoned Josafá Marreiro and he would have affirmed that if he was the reason for the movement, he would ask for the own discharge. The announcement was commemorated with palms by the Indians that decided, then, to liberate the highway.
Among the Indians that participated in the movement were the representatives of the races Cinta Larga, Surui, Apurinã, Terena, Tenharin, Kwazar, Sater Mawé, Munduruku, Mura, Mequéns, Apurinã of Amazonas, Parintintin, Aikaná, Kanoé, Wajurú, Orumaé, Orueu, Oroba and Orowin, besides other people of the State of Mato Grosso of the South and of Amazonas, that joined to the protest in solidarity to the ” relatives Indian “.
As the open letter directed to the Ministry of the Justice, the indigenous communities leaderships, would be indignant with the form that the regional executive administration of Funai of Cacoal would be treating the execution of the politics and of the appropriate resources to the Indians. For these reasons they would have unchained the movement in defense of their interests and constitutional rights. In the document, the leaderships pointed out that the movement would have the objective of calling Funai to the responsibility to stop to treat the resources destined to the Indians.
According to the cacique Marcelo Cinta Larga, for several times the leaderships tried to dialogue with the responsible people for Funai and for Funasa to find one solutions for the problems faced by the Indians, but they would not have been assisted. He pointed out that the way they found to call the governments attention was closing the highway and he also affirmed that it would be closed while the demands were not assisted. “We want to solve our problem in a peaceful way, but we claimed that our people are respected”, he said.
Assisted demands
Besides have been assisted with the administrators of Funai change in Cacoal, Orlando Castro Silveira to Rômulo Siqueira and the discharge of regional coordinator of Funasa, Josafá Marreiro, the Indians demanded, among other things, the natives nomination for the leadership of all the subordinate indigenous for Cacoal post, an administrative audit in the group task Cinta Larga, the execution of the urgent plan to protect the indigenous land Cinta Larga and the extension of the same for all the indigenous lands under the jurisdiction of Funai/Cacoal and the elaboration of the plans of maintainable development and protection of all the indigenous lands.