Employees walk off the job amid anger over statements criticising the former Funai employee who went missing with Dom Phillips
They had demanded that Funai’s president, Marcelo Augusto Xavier da Silva, increase security for staff working in the Amazon as well as retract Funai statements criticising Pereira in the days after his disappearance. No response was forthcoming.when their boat disappeared on 5 June
. But the whereabouts of the activist and the journalist remain a mystery and the search was continuing on Tuesday, nine days after they were last seen.removed from his post because of what he believed was a successful operation“The disappearance of Bruno and Dom was the last straw,” said Priscila Colotetti, executive director of Indigenistas Associados, an association of Funai employees. “Bruno was a worker at Funai and he did his job supremely well. He represents the dismantling of Funai.
Funai’s president did not answer an interview request but in an emailed statement the agency claimed it had doubled its budget to the Vale do Javari over the last three years and increased funding to other parts of the agency, particularly those tending to isolated tribes.