Observations of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration detected a worrying absence of rains in the region, a phenomenon that also hits the country, La Razon newspaper published.
According to the US agency, this is the second most intense drought in South America since 2002, the signs of which began in 2018 in southeastern Brazil and it spread to regions of Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina in 2020, the newspaper said.
Bolivian Deputy Minister of Civil Defense Juan Carlos Calvimontes informed two days ago that 17 municipalities are affected by fires, while 23 heat sources were recorded, 12 of them in Santa Cruz and 11 in Beni.
Bolivia’s new Executive, in addition to the climate phenomena, is facing the largest economic contraction in decades, marked by the mismanagement of Covid-19 by the coup administration led by Jeanine Añez.
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