Evo, a fireproof chair | Morales …

In the largest dry tropical forest in the world, called Chiquitania, there are not only fires. An environmental policy that badociates President Evo Morales at one end and opposition to each other is being discussed in this region of southeastern Bolivia. The area is a kind of mattress between the Gran Chaco and the Amazon. In this wasteland where nearly 1,100,000 hectares have already been burned, there are bills to be pbaded on to the government, but also fertile ground for ostensible media campaigns against the MAS leader. What polls do not realize for the moment – dislodge Morales – tries to achieve this by discredit. Even on the grounds that the Bolivian president and his neighbor, Jair Bolsonaro, have about the same responsibility in the face of the disaster. For now, if the gestures have a symbolic weight, the summit of the Amazon held Friday in Leticia, Colombia, had a great absence: the far-right army. Evo, on the other hand, was present. The decision of the Brazilian, whose country has the largest area involved in the claims, was not well taken: 4,776,980 square kilometers of the Amazon.

Opposition to the Bolivian president increased last week on critical news reports for its fire management, which have already killed. British columnist Dan Collyns, for The Guardian, caused a sensation. In his detailed report, he said: "Dozens of volunteer firefighters from cities in Bolivia have complained that they have received little support from the government."

Although various sources have not yet been extinguished, La Paz has allocated several resources to the devastated area. The last was the incorporation of a huge Russian aircraft II-76 in the fight against fire in Chiquitania. His arrival was scheduled for yesterday and he would stay a month. The Sputnik agency said the Bolivian government would only pay for its maintenance costs. The ship will join about twenty other people and about 7,000 people between volunteers and specialists. Until now, Morales had also helped the Boering Supertanker 747-700 who had leased it to the United States. It is the largest tanker in the world with a cargo capacity of 74,000 liters of water and retardants. Argentina provided a group of military personnel.

Last Wednesday, there were 753 fire sources of varying magnitude in the Chiquitania region, concentrated in the cities of Concepción and San Ignacio de Velasco. The information was provided by the commander of the Bolivian Armed Forces, Williams Kaliman, who gives the daily parts on the subject. In turn, the Minister of Communication, Manuel Canelas, responded to questions raised by the government's refusal to declare the environmental emergency. He said the state "is not overwhelmed" by the facts and that it has not been because the government has responded to the situation. Ecologists Evo remind him that last July he signed Supreme Decree No. 3973, which authorized the clearing and burning of forests in the departments of Santa Cruz and Beni to allow the land to benefit from the landfill. agricultural activities.

However, just as Morales has been attacked by the opposition or by environmentalists close to it, it also enjoys significant support abroad. The journalist Wyatt Reed, in a survey published in English on The Grayzone website, denounced political operations financed by US institutions. He added that this would create instability in the Plurinational State under the pretext of an alleged lack of control over fires in Chiquitania. He notably pointed out the Bolivian Jhanisse Vaca Daza as the architect of the campaign against Evo, whom he described as "agent of American interests in Bolivia." He studied at Kent State University in Ohio, where he focused his thesis on "Authoritarian Regimes in South America." He then went on to study at universities in Britain and Chile, and Daza also studied with the elite of the Harvard Kennedy School.

Reed also explained that Vaca Daza had "links with US coup organizations such as HRF (which had organized the Hong Kong protests against the Chinese government), Harvard / CANVAS, which had sponsored their studies (the same organization Leopoldo López and his coup attempt in Venezuela) ". The journalist concludes in his article that "the machine of regime change is changing the gears and absurdly baderts that Bolivia badumes the essential responsibility for fires in the Amazon".

Opposition candidates who are trying to end the period of Evo government hegemony are far from reaching it today. Former President Carlos Mesa, who heads Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), continues to decline in polls that separate him more and more from the president. He was even criticized for politicizing the environmental disaster in Chiquitania when photographs were taken in burned areas of the department of Roboré in Santa Cruz last August. Oscar Ortiz, the third in the polls, is far away, although he has increased his percentage of potential voters.

According to the Latin American Strategic Center for Geopolitics (CELAG), 54% of Bolivians have a positive image of Morales. It supports its policies of nationalization of strategic sectors to a percentage similar to the previous one. Even those who would not have voted for his reelection believe that he will win the elections on October 20th. His thirteen years of mandate, far from being credible and popular, have consolidated his reputation as a firefighter and ruler.

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