Marcelo Xavier is dismissed from the presidency of Funai.
He took office in 2019 and was instrumental in the departure of indigenous rights activist Bruno Pereira from the foundation.
247 - With just a few days left until the end of Jair Bolsonaro's (PL) government, the president of Funai (National Indian Foundation), Marcelo Xavier, was dismissed from his post this Thursday (29), reports the Folha de S. Paul.
"Xavier took over Funai in 2019 and, soon after, the indigenist Bruno Pereira, then head of the Cgiirc (General Coordination of Isolated and Recently Contacted Indians), asked to step down from his position. When he left the position to work at Univaja (Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley), he stated that obstacles from the Bolsonaro government and Xavier's management at the head of the foundation prevented him from continuing his work defending indigenous peoples, especially isolated ones. Pereira ended up being murdered in June of this year, in the Javari Valley, along with the English journalist Dom Phillips. During the investigations into the disappearance of Bruno and Dom, Xavier even said that the two disappeared because they had put themselves at risk by entering the Indigenous Land (TI) of the Javari Valley without authorization from the agency," the report recalls.
Under Lula's (PT) government, Funai will be under the control of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, which will be headed by the elected federal deputy, Sônia Guajajara (Psol).
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