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The Indian National Foundation (Funai) announced that the president of the body, Wallace Bastos, had requested a waiver Monday (14).
In office since last May, Bastos was appointed to this post by its president at the time, Michel Temer.
Currently attached to the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, Funai is responsible for promoting and protecting the rights of more than 300 indigenous peoples.
According to the chronicler of G1 Andreia Sadi, Minister responsible for Funai, Damares Alves, plans to appoint General Franklimberg of Freitas as new president of the foundation.
Until then, Funai was linked to the Department of Justice. When the Jair Bolsonaro government decided to transfer the organ to another file, Damares inquired about what he called the "isolation policy" of indigenous peoples practiced today. 39; hui.
Founded in 1967, the National Indian Foundation encourages studies of the identification, delimitation, demarcation, land reclamation and registration of lands traditionally occupied by Aboriginal peoples, as well as the monitoring and control of these.
According to the official website of the agency, the FUNAI is also responsible for "promoting ethnic development, conservation and restoration of the environment on indigenous lands, as well as to act to control and mitigate possible environmental impacts resulting from interference of indigenous peoples' outer lands. "
In November of last year, Jair Bolsonaro, president-elect, said that the fact to keep Indians on reserves is like having animals in zoos.
Throughout the campaign, the president repeatedly stated that if he was elected, he would not stand out "one more millimeter" of native land.
In Section 231, the Federal Constitution sets out the "original rights" of Indians over traditionally occupied lands and states that it is the responsibility of the Union to delimit these lands.
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