CCPY Update, n. 82, p. 3
18 de Set de 1995
New Funai Head
Funai
Marcio Santilli, founder of the non-governmental NDI which has now merged with CEDI to become ISA is the new head of FUNAI, replacing Dinarte Madeiro. Santilli, personally invited by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was one of the congressmen who worked hardest to include Indian rights in the 1988 Constitution. His priorities will be demarcation, and a profound reorganisation of FUNAI to allow much greater participation by civil society. Santilli, the first Funai director to be chosen from the non governmental arca, told the Folha de S.Paulo that funding for demarcation will come from a German government grani of US$30 million, part of the G-7's Pilot Plan for the Amazon. (98% of Brazil's indigenous reserves are located in the Amazon although only 52% of the Indians live on them). Santilli defends the Indians right to explore their own natural resources like timber and gold. "They need to generate economic surplus. Not like it is now, where the Indian takes no part and at the end is left with his land devastated: on the contrary: they should be the ones who organise their own production on their own land".
As a federal -deputy Santilli helped to ensure that the rights of Indians were enshrined in the 1988 constitution with 497 out of the 503 votes of Congress, He believes that Funai has to formulate a policy for the Indians which is "compatible with the whole of Brazilian society."
CCPY-Update/82 , 18/09/1995
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