Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul
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actions that, at the same time, foments economic development,
asserting that land serves no multicultural premise. The stroking
hand ends up being the same that casts stones.
We present as example the case of the Terra Indigena Guyraroka
located in the municipality of Caarapó, MS. The process of the
struggle for recognition of the community's land was initiated in
the second half of the 1990s, when the Kaiowá of the tekoha began
to mobilize. In 2002, studies are carried out, in accordance with
Ordinance 14/1996 of the Ministry of Justice, for identification
and delimitation of the land. In 2003 the work was finalized and
analyzed and, in 2004, the FUNAI published the summary of the
corresponding report 5, at which time the administrative challenge
was begun. It was not until October 8, 2009, that the Declaratory
Order signed by the State Minister of Justice was published in the
Official Journal of the Union, this being the document that authorizes
the physical demarcation of 11,401 hectares that compose TI
Guyraroka. The placement of the demarcation posts, however, as
of July, 2011, have not yet been physically placed, because of a
combination of legal, administrative and political factors. The most
recent action preventing the physical demarcation was the denial
of permission by some landowners for the group coordinated by
an engineer to be able to enter the space to be demarcated, which
would lead to even further legal delays.
Here the duplicitous personality of the State is delineated:
while the State, represented by FUNAI and the Ministry of Justice,
attempt for nearly a decade to regularize this Indigenous Land,
in 2010, a few kilometers from Guyraroka, an employee passes
a sugar and alcohol refinery - connected to the Grupo Cosan, a
multinational, whose chain of production is financed by the same
above mentioned State, as part of the national policy on ethanol
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