RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – the Brazilian Agency for Indigenous Affairs reported on Friday that a high risk in the Amazon Expedition managed to bring together a group isolated with their family, thus attenuating t ensiones with a rival tribe near the border with Peru.la agency FUNAI said that a team of half a dozen people came up to where they were 34 members of the tribe korubo, in the Brazilian State of Amazonas. The expedition included relatives of the korubo and also had the goal of avoiding a conflict with the tribe matis, who lives about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from there. The matis tribe asked several times the FUNAI intervention because they believe that the korubo have desires for revenge, mistakenly believing that their relatives had been killed by the matis.
The main concern of analysts of FUNAI was to the isolated group not believed that the korubo in the expedition were, indeed, their relatives, which became a mission of ‘high risk’ project.
“It turned out to be something quite poignant. “We realized soon which one of the two korubo we saw initially was brother of one of the members of the expedition”, said the Coordinator of the FUNAI Bruno Pereira. “It was very exciting, and provoked some tears.” The expedition lasted 32 days and took place in the Valley Javari, an area of more than eight million hectares (almost 31,000 square miles), larger than Hungria.las Brazilian laws say that only should establish contact with tribes isolated as a last resort for preserving indigenous lives and the expedition was the first mission of the FUNAI since 1996. It was also the first large operation of the Agency during the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro, on the extreme right.
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