Hundreds of protesters take to the streets of the country against forest fires and environmental pollution | Cientos de manifestantes toman las calles del país contra los incendios forestales y la contaminación ambiental

Lourdes Molina, El Deber:

This Monday there were several marches in different regions of the country

Manifestación en Santa Cruz / Foto: Fuad Landívar
Demonstration in Santa Cruz / Photo: Fuad Landívar

“Without forests there is no water, there is no life, there is nothing,” read one of the signs of the protesters who participated in the national march for forests and water, which they called a few days ago and took place this Monday in several regions of the country.

There were 11 concentration points where self-convened neighbors arrived to demonstrate about forest fires, environmental pollution and water shortages in the country.

Manifestación en Santa Cruz
Demonstration in Santa Cruz / Photo: Fuad Landívar

In La Paz they gathered in the Plaza Bicentenario, starting at 6:00 p.m.; at the same time, but in Cochabamba, they were in the Plaza de las Banderas. In Santa Cruz the concentration point was the Plaza del Estudiante, at the same time as the other two cities on the main axis.

The Plaza 10 de Noviembre in Potosí also served as a meeting point for residents to arrive with banners. In Sucre, they chose the former Aniceto Arce station; in Tarija, the plaza of the Church of San Roque; while in Oruro, the Main Plaza.

Manifestación en Santa Cruz

Manifestación en Santa Cruz / Foto: Fuad Landívar

In Rurrenabaque they were on the Union bridge, like San Buenaventura; while in Trinidad, in the Main Plaza. And finally, Pando, on Las Palmas Avenue.

“It is time to wake up, for us Benianos to raise our voices to demand immediate action. There are sick people, the smoke is polluting and the fires continue,” claimed a neighbor from Rurrenabaque.

Likewise, from the capital of Santa Cruz they demanded that President Luis Arce and other authorities take action on the matter. “It is an environmental problem, there should be no political overtones here, we are going to be left without forests, without water, without life,” shouted a woman who participated in the march this Monday.

Meanwhile, in the city of La Paz, the march of environmental activists reached the Vice Presidency of the State to demand that a natural disaster be declared due to the fires in that department.

The protesters demand the lack of a ‘strong hand’ against the perpetrators of the fires in Madidi.

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