John Otis/CPJ Andes Correspondent reports for Committee to Protect Journalists: When Pablo Ortiz, a veteran reporter for El Deber, the main daily in the eastern city of Santa Cruz, set off to cover massive forest fires, he didn’t realize how dangerous the assignment would be. At one point Ortiz was alongside volunteer firefighters as shifting winds…
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Economic and geopolitical interests behind the fire in Chiquitania
El Diario reports: Congresswoman Jimena Costa The MAS Senator candidate Rogelio Mayta warns “political opportunism” in opponents of the disaster in eastern Bolivia So far in the last months, at least 3.3 million hectares burned in the Chiquitania were counted, an accident that, in the opinion of the deputy of the Democratic Unit (UD), Jimena…
Firefighters in Bolivia lose hope of taming blazes as burned area doubles
Channel News Asia reports: CONCEPCION, Bolivia: Bolivian volunteer firefighters, exhausted from battling blazes sweeping rapidly across the country’s lowlands, are starting to lose hope and retreat from the front lines of some infernos in the drought-stricken region. The fires this year are Bolivia’s worst in at least two decades, with the size of burned land…
FAN: fires in Bolivia burned down 4.1 million hectares
AFP reports for Los Tiempos: Aerial view of smoke coming out of a fire near Charagua in Bolivia, on the border with Paraguay, which was recorded in August. | File photo | AFP The uncontrollable fires in Bolivia since August devastated 4.1 million hectares of forest and grassland, the private NGO Friends of Nature Foundation…
The jaguar, in the shadow of death
Gabriel Romano, EFE, reports for Pagina Siete: The flora and fauna that have survived the fire suffer a “total effect” of the disaster. A jaguar at the Noel Kempff Mercado Zoo in Santa Cruz. Below, animals burned in the Chaco. Photos: EFE / Nature, Earth and Life Foundation (Native) Forest fires in Bolivia threaten the…
Fire in Chiquitania: the world could help better but evo’s egocentric behavior ruins it all!
El Diario reports: Incessant fire, devastation and death EU: Fire in Chiquitania is a dire situation The head of business of the United States Embassy, Bruce Williamson, reiterated that the Trump administration is on the lookout for more help request from Bolivia. The country’s Foreign Ministry informed the diplomatic corps about the situation in Roboré…
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