The Government of Brazil dismisses fifty commanders of indigenous areas due to the humanitarian crisis

MADRID, 24 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government of Brazil has announced this Tuesday the dismissal of more than fifty public officials, including a dozen soldiers, who were falling off the cliff in different areas related to assisting indigenous communities, days after the announcement of the difficulties they are going through.

A total of 54 people have been dismissed, including eleven regional coordinators of the Secretariat of Indigenous Health (SESAI), which reports to the Ministry of Health, and another 43 regional and state heads of the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI). , among which there are thirteen soldiers.

Although from the Ministry of Health they have indicated that these dismissals and the next nominations are part of the natural processes in a change of government, they take place a few days after the new administration of the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, denounced the " genocide" of which some of these communities had been victims, citing the Yanomami people as an example.

"More than a humanitarian crisis, what I saw in Roraima was a genocide. A premeditated crime against the Yanomami, committed by a government insensitive to the suffering of the Brazilian people," Lula wrote on his Twitter profile.

Under the government of President Lula, for the first time, SESAI and FUNAI will be led by members of these native communities. In the case of the second organization, it will cease to be dependent on the Ministry of Justice to form part of the portfolio of Indigenous Peoples.

The Government of Brazil has also announced that the Federal Police are already in the hands of opening an investigation into cases of omission and mismanagement that could have been committed years ago to contain and resolve the problems of the Yanomami community, whose territory is home to the largest indigenous reserve in Brazil.

The new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples has warned that this region is suffering from a humanitarian and food crisis that is unprecedented and has estimated at least 570 minors who have died from malnutrition or food contaminated by mercury, as a consequence of the invasion of the illegal mining, reports G1.

The humanitarian emergency, denounced the new authorities, is a direct consequence of the cuts by the government of Jair Bolsanaro, who is accused of having encouraged and allowed the presence of these illegal extractors of gold and other precious stones.