BRASILIA — Brazil’s indigenous affairs agency Funai has called on a top indigenous leader to explain her criticism of the right-wing government of President Jair Bolsonaro and the impact its handling of the COVID-19 crisis has had on native people.
Federal police have subpoenaed Sonia Guajajara, head of Brazil’s largest indigenous umbrella organization APIB, to testify on her statements at the request of Funai, which was set up in 1967 to defend the interests of indigenous people.
Guajajara said she was summoned to explain her documentary series published on Internet called “Marac – Indigenous Emergency” which denounces the lethal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazil’s 8…
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