Comunicaciones: The relentless western world

On may 30th several newspapers published something not very common. Flying over an area in the western Amazonas, the National Foundation for Indians (FUNAI, Fundacao Nacional do Indio) took some images of a tribe that has never been contacted by the western society.

This tribe was discovered in Acre, near Envira river closed to the frontier with Peru. It's possible that they were the last survivors of their culture or a family of one neighbor tribe like the "short people" or "red heads".

They seem to be nomads; their communal houses are abandoned with some of their tools, there is no sign of a land for farming and like many other cultures in the world, now they are threatened by the exploitation of the area where they live. The lost of the Amazonas and the persecution by lumberjacks makes them move more frequently that could cause women to stop having kids reducing the opportunities of the tribe to survive. Explained members of the FUNAI.

The FUNAI has decided not to contact them and at the same time, trying to establish a protected area for them and for some more tribes that live in the same space. Survival International say: "Following the first contact, it is common for more than 50% of a tribe to die. Sometimes all of them perish.

The same organization wrote:

"A vast amount of evidence, including video footage, audio material, photographs, artifacts, testimonies and interviews, has been collected over the years.

For example, on the 18th of September 2007 a plane chartered by the Frankfurt Zoological Society checking for the presence of illegal loggers flew over a remote part of Peru’s south-eastern rainforest. By chance they came across a group of twenty one Indians,probably members of the Mashco-Piro tribe, in a temporary fishing camp on a river bank.

Just six weeks after the sighting, Peru’s President Garcia wrote in a newspaper article that the uncontacted Indians had been ‘created by environmentalists’ opposed to oil exploration".

Definitively the world can give us surprises, today I watch a t.v. program where they were talking about cryogenation. According to the documentary, there was approximately 600 people frozen in an intent to extend their life and looking for immortality. The same quantity of people were in the waiting list to be frozen after dead looking for the same goal. One guy also frizzed his best friend -a dog- and convinced his mom to see familiar faces in their future eternal life.