Tupinambá Cacique (Chief) Babau, Rosivaldo Ferreira da Silva, was arrested in the middle of the night on March 10 of 2010. He was sleeping in his Serra do Padeiro home, as were his wife and three year old son. In an illegal action, the Federal Police destroyed furniture and used extreme force to immobilize […]
"These companies are criminal and all that is done to you there in Tocantins is going to be done with the people in Pará. The government delivers our lives to criminal enterprises." A public hearing on Wednesday April 7, at the House of Representatives in Brasilia, perhaps demonstrates what the population of the Xingu […]
The Brazilian government declared on March 24, on the occasion of the signing of the Provisional Measure no. 483, that it was creating the Secretariat of Indigenous Health. The information was widely reported as if the referred to Secretariat was being constituted, effectively, in that act. In practice however, that is not what occurred. The […]
A document delivered to the United Nations last Thursday, April 1, claims that flaws in the environmental licensing process for the controversial Belo Monte Dam in Brazil were overlooked due to political pressure from the government. The complaint documents the illegal and arbitrary nature of project approval, and how political pressure was brought to bear […]
President creates special Secretariat of Indigenous Health Care STF: Raposa ruling not binding for other demarcations *** President creates Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health signing Provisional Measure President Lula signed on March 24 the Provisional Measure that creates the Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health Care. The new secretariat, to be part of the […]
During a press conference Thursday afternoon (Feb.25), the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) stated support for the bishops in the Amazon, States of Pará and Amapá, especially for the bishop of the Xingu Prelature and president of the Indigenist Missionary Council (CIMI), Dom Erwin Kräutler, and his struggle against the construction of the […]
On Wednesday evening the 17th of February, a group of 15 families of the Kaingang people retook an area of land named Morro Santana, in the Barro Santana, in Porto Alegre, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. These families live on the peripheries of the capitol and for many years have demanded […]
Occurrences began in January and resulted in 94 children being admitted to hospitals in the region Since the beginning of January, 94 cases of acute diarrhea were recorded in communities of the Maxakali people, in Minas Gerais. Children of up to five years of age from the villages of Pradinho and Água Boa, located […]
The president of the Indigenist Missionary Council (CIMI), Bishop of the Xingu Prelature, Dom Erwin Kräutler and one of the leaders of the fight agains the Belo Monte Hydroelectric reaffirmed his position on the dam, in Pará: “I am opposed!”. The firm voice of the bishop remained unweakened following news that the license that authorizes […]
Seven entities of the indigenous and indigenist movement, on Thursday, January 21, 2010, published a manifesto on the publication of Decree 7.056, of 28 December, 2009, which restructures the FUNAI. The participating entities, Cimi among them, affirm the importance of there being a FUNAI restructuring, but highlight that it was not done in the best […]