Bolivia Is Burning. Who Will Stop Its Fires?
Bolivia’s fires are the bitter fruit of policies designed to benefit agribusiness. Mr. Morales has promoted the expansion of cattle ranching and biofuels in Santa Cruz since 2010. In April this year, Mr. Morales signed an agreement to increase beef exports to China, which have — like Brazil’s — been growing in value and volume. Then in July, a decree legalized slash-and-burn fires to turn forests into pasture. Bolivians called Mr. Morales a “murderer of nature.”NY Times, 24 September 2019
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EVO MORALES’ ECOCIDE IS A GENOCIDE
The bolivian lowlands have been burning for over a month. Over 4 million hectares of biodiverse forests has already burned to ash–an area larger than Switzerland. Uncontrolled, the fires continue to spread across protected areas and Indigenous territories, provoking an incommensurable loss of life.Intercontinental Cry, 24 September 2019
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Fires consume more than 4.2 million acres of Bolivia’s forests
Massive fires in the eastern region of Bolivia continue to expand, threatening to destroy thousands of hectares of crops and pollute the air breathed by villagers with smoke and ash.World Socialist Web Site, 10 September 2019
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As Bolivian forests burn, Evo’s bet on Big Farming comes under fire
In the tropical Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a wealthy farming hub on the edge on the Amazon rainforest, President Evo Morales gathered with ranchers late last month to celebrate a maiden shipment of beef to China.Daily Times, 09 September 2019
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