The cacique Pio Cinta Larga, that assumed on the last Thursday the regional administration of the National Foundation of the Indian (Funai), in Cacoal, said yesterday that will set up his work team starting from next Monday. He informed that has not still named anybody because he is awaiting the new coordinators of the Force Task/*s Group Cinta Larga, João Batista Maglia, who stayed yesterday in the base of the Federal Police, in Pimenta Bueno. “As we will work in partnership, I prefer to wait João Batista so that we form the team together ", said Pio.

Pio said that the indigenous leaders of other etnias will also be heard in the decisions’ making. Besides taking care of the administrative and financial areas of the regional administration of Funai, the cacique has the attribution of administering any situation that happens at the villages of the etnias Cinta Larga, Suruí, Kwaza, Apurinã and Mequéns, located in Cacoal, Pimenta Bueno and Espigão do Oeste.

As for the 16 employees discharged by the president of Funai, Márcio Augusto Freitas de Meira, the cacique said that will talk with his relatives to decide later if he will avail them in new functions. Most of those discharged occupied positions of leadership of indigenous positions in the villages and the others worked in the administrative and financial sections of Funai. On the reasons of the dismissals, the cacique just said that he was surprised with for the discharges.

In spite of being the first Indian to occupy the position in Rondônia and the second in Brazil, Pio said that is prepared to his new functions. Before assuming Funai, the cacique was one of the principal bosses of the mine of diamonds of the Reserva Roosevelt, located in Espigão do Oeste.

Questioned about his personal life, the cacique said that just has a wife and six or seven children. About his age he affirmed that “the only thing that I don/*t know about my life is how old I am ".