Slash-and-burn practices are a threat to public health, and a health alert should be declared | Los chaqueos son un atentado a la salud pública, se debe declarar alerta sanitaria

By Brujula Digital, El Diario: The Bolivian Society of Pneumology has proposed declaring a health alert due to the environmental pollution present in several cities, caused by forest fires and “chaqueos” (slash-and-burn practices). In a statement, the organization labeled the chaqueos as “an attack on public health” and demanded that those responsible “be sanctioned according…