El Día: Active forest fires in Bolivia decrease to nine Disminuyen a nueve los incendios forestales activos en Bolivia The Ministry of Defense, based on information from the National Incident Command, announced that active forest fires in Bolivia were reduced to nine. According to the details of the official report updated until the night of…
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Bolivia is burning
Kareem Rifai, The Michigan Daily: Landlocked Bolivia, a country nestled between regional hotspots Argentina, Chile and Peru, has skyrocketed to the forefront of the global geopolitical struggle. Bolivia’s 2019 election was fraught with allegations of fraud leveled against now-former President Evo Morales. Morales now faces accusations of crimes against humanity due to allegations that he organized food and…
Bolivia struggles to contain wildfires, declares natural disaster
TRT World: The wildfires have affected more than 600 families but no fatalities have been reported so far. Bolivia has declared a state of disaster after wildfires ravaged forested and agricultural areas in the eastern part of the country. In 2019, wildfires destroyed more than 6 million hectares in the Bolivian Amazon. So far this…
Error del gobierno – Government Failure
Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: 2019 Fire Scar Matches INRA Approved Settlements Until last year, the National Agrarian Reform Institute approved 1,455 new communities in the country, 945 in the Santa Cruz department. Most of them in Chiquitania Cicatriz de incendios de 2019 coincide con los asentamientos aprobados por el INRA Hasta el año pasado, el…
Bolivia declares a national emergency overwhelmed by forest fires
Bhavi Mandalia, Pledge Times: More than half a million hectares of forest are burning in Santa Cruz, a region in eastern Bolivia, at the gates of the Amazon, which faces two consecutive years of drought and high temperatures. The interim president, Jeanine Áñez, declared this Wednesday a “national emergency”, which will allow her to receive…
Ecocidio – Bolivia – Ecocide
El Diario: Ruling of the Court of Nature State policy and agribusiness caused “ecocide” in Bolivia The TIDN establishes guarantees so that fires do not occur again, among them the abrogation of the norms that promote the expansion of the agrarian border and with it the burning and clearing. In Bolivia, 6.4 million hectares were…
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