The National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) confirmed that it found inconsistencies in bidding processes carried out in recent years for the purchase of food and other products distributed to indigenous communities across the country. “The current management has identified the lack of qualification of items in the food baskets distributed to indigenous peoples in the action to face covid-19 by the previous management”, informed the foundation, referring to the acquisition of food products that do not respect the eating habits and customs of different ethnic groups. Documents available on the Transparency Portal, from the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), indicate the amounts that the foundation paid for items such as sugar, chocolate milk, cookies, processed rice, sausage, industrialized juices and other products purchased and distributed in order to minimize the impacts of the pandemic among indigenous peoples. Still according to Funai’s current management, in addition to the lack of care that resulted in non-observance of the cultural specificities and eating habits of different indigenous peoples, there are indications of possible misuse of public money – which motivated the foundation to review all contracts entered into force in recent years. This Tuesday (16), the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dino, used his social networks to announce that the Federal Police (PF) is investigating the purchase and disposal of “tons of missing steaks” which, according to him , would be “supposedly directed at indigenous people in the Amazon”, he identified. The acquisition of steaks by Funai’s Regional Coordination in Vale do Javari, whose office is located in Atalaia do Norte (AM), is one of the detailed processes on the Transparency Portal. Funai, however, did not detail the suspicions of the disappearance of the product. Last Monday (14), the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported that, between 2020 and 2022, the federal government bought 19 tons of pork chops to send to the indigenous peoples of the Javari Valley, in Alto Solimões (AM). The meat, according to the newspaper, was diverted and never reached the indigenous communities.
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