Bolivia’s rainy season is causing great havoc in many regions of the
country. The burst of the Acre River
have caused floods and also landslides affecting around 11.458 families and leaving five deaths in La Paz when a minibus fell into a raging river in the south
of the city after a bridge collapsed.
The most affected municipality
was Cobija, located about
600 km north of La Paz in the Amazon Basin on the border of Brazil and
Peru. On this matter, the State authority indicated that a Coordination Plan is
going to be executed with the help of the national government, the departmental
government and the municipal one in order to reconstruct Cobija. It has also
been considered to incorporate of a new drain system.
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| Man trying to catch dead animals after the floods (Reuters) |
Morales
Government has declared a state of emergency in five of the nine Bolivians departments
allowing local authorities to have access to satisfy the needs of the victims
of natural disasters.
So far, the
Ministry of Defense delivered 160 tons of humanitarian aid to the affected
families, including 115 tents, 500 mattresses, 106 kg of flour, 40 kg of sugar
and rice, 87 sacks of noodles, 500 unities of water and 34 boxes of oil to
distribute between the nine accommodations established to shelter the victims
of the floods. Three water purification stations were also delivered on Friday
by a C-130 Hercules Aircraft to counteract the diseases which threaten the
health of the affected families as consequences of the consumption of
contaminated water.
By the end of
this week, Civil Defense carried out a report which quantified the damage
caused by La Niña ocean-atmosphere phenomenon from December 2011 to February
2012. So far, 107 municipalities and 912 houses have been affected and nine
persons were found dead.
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