Outraged by the decision to evict them from the site, the 75 indigenous people living in Maracanã Village decided to resist and did not do it on their own, as Fluminense Federal University professor Fernanda Sánchez reported on the Blog da Raquel Rolnik:
البته چنین کاری به تنهایی انجام‌پذیر نبود چنان‌که فرناندا سانچز، استاد دانشگاه فدرال فلومیننز در وبلاگ Da Raquel Rolnik می‌گوید: