Government says that there are people who plan burning to traffic land and also to access humanitarian aid

Behind the forest fires that are recorded in the country, especially in Chiquitania, there are dark interests, such as people who They plan burning to traffic land, others do it to access humanitarian aid. This is what both the Vice Minister of Civil Defense, Juan Carlos Calvimontes, and the Minister of the Environment and Water agreed to point out. Alan Lisperguer.

Vice Minister Calvimontes reported that experts from Spain assured that the behavior of the fire and its magnitude in the fires in the department of Santa Cruz They were premeditated and planned.

“There are irresponsible people who continue to set fires, when the Spanish experts were leaving they told us that these fire complexes that have been generated in the Chiquitania sector are not fires that have a natural evolution, it is as if they had been manufactured. “These fire complexes are premeditated and planned human activity,” said the authority in a contact with state media.

Furthermore, he said that despite the constant work of the Armed Forces (FFAA), by land and by air, these fires continue in different sectors of Chiquitania.

“We have also been able to identify, There are people who are creating, who are using fire to create other types of environments, not only social discontent, not only political discontent, but perhaps also looking for some other type of victims,” Calvimontes warned.

Hours before, the Minister of Environment and Water, Alan Lisperguer, had indicated that There are organizations that carry out these burnings with the aim of trafficking land. and also to request social housing and benefit from humanitarian aid, in areas where there were houses in precarious conditions.

“For example, it catches our attention that the forested area (in some communities) is not being affected by the fires, but the homes are. This will be part of the investigation that the Police will carry out. and all the corresponding instances because this situation cannot be taken advantage of to carry out illicit activities, such as land trafficking, or intentions with the aim of wearing down a Government.”

Faced with this situation, the national government made the decision to install a National Fire Monitoring Center that operates from the department of Santa Cruz with precise information that helps define actions to mitigate fires.

Likewise, an intervention plan was carried out to reinforce the operational capacity of firefighters and strengthen patrols with different motorized vehicles in the different municipalities.