Weekly Report - 11 August 2011 (WR-11-32)

BRAZIL | Concern about Amazon tribe. The justice ministry has dispatched 16 national security force officers to Acre to provide security to employees of the National Indigenous Foundation (Funai) on the Xinane base, 20km from the border with Peru. Funai has raised the alarm about the fate of an uncontacted Amazon tribe, which it fears has been disturbed or even wiped out by Peruvian drug traffickers. Last week Brazilian police arrested for a second time a Portuguese national, Joaquim Antônio Custódio Fadista, previously charged with drug-trafficking in Brazil and Luxembourg. He was arrested in the same area in March and extradited to Peru. Funai workers found a tribal arrow at a camp site used by the traffickers. Brazil’s remote tribes (estimated at 77, with 30 identified) are increasingly threatened by traffickers, logging and oil companies.

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