For a two-part series, Brazil Reports interviewed current and former Funai members, as well as people who belong to the indigenous communities they’re tasked with protecting, to understand the level of damage suffered under Bolsonaro’s administration, as well as their expectations to be able to function properly under Lula’s new government.Funai was also influential in getting government ministries to adopt initiatives beneficial to indigenous communities, including the Ministry of Health’s creation of a division to work exclusively with indigenous people, and the Education Ministry’s creation of curriculums that emphasized respecting the cultural diversity of indigenous peoples.“We have had a fierce setback in this history with the generalized dismantling of the public structure.In addition to staffing problems and lack of resources, Vianna recounted to Brazil Reports instances of internal sabotage by higher-level directors as well as unnecessary bureaucracy that effectively stalled out protection projects on indigenous lands.Even Funai’s current director Marcelo Augusto Xavier, according to Vianna, was put in place in 2019 because his predecessor, General Franklimberg Ribeiro de Freitas, was acting too far within the law and “was not satisfying the [land-grabbers’] appetite for fighting indigenous rights.” “He was placed there in a very strategic way and implemented an anti-indigenous policy within Funai,” said Vianna."