The Assembly session was convened for this Wednesday starting at 15:00, the goal, authorize the departure of Bolivian humanitarian aid troops. That call unleashed criticism not only from opponents, but also from citizens who follow the Assembly’s internet pages.
“Request for authorization for the departure of military troops to the sister republic of Argentina, which will help in the mitigation of fires”, indicates the only point of consideration that the assembly members will carry out.
The Bolivian troops that went on peacekeeping missionswere the so-called “Bolivia” that went to Haiti 12 times and were suspended in 2015. At that time, the embezzlement of the funds received by the United Nations military chiefs for the mobilization of these troops was denounced.
The current scenario and context are different, this Tuesday there were floods, overflows of rivers and mazamorras in the departments of Tarija, Santa Cruz and La Paz, respectively, and critics note that they intend to send troops to another country instead of assisting the populations that were almost completely destroyed.
In its daily report from the Vice Ministry of Civil Defense, it was only possible to observe the public rendering of accounts for 2021, which emphasizes the attention to the fires that occurred in the country. Until the closing of this note deployment of troops to assist communities was not reported farmers from Tarija and La Paz, mainly.
only the ministry of Health, reported the dispatch of medical brigades towards the municipality of Entre Ríos, in Tarija, where the floods caused damage and the disappearance of at least 16 people, according to media reports.
In La Paz, the community of Huiri Lanza, in the Yungas municipality of Irupana, was hit by a dungeon that buried houses and the educational unit of the placewhere the disappearance of one of the teachers was reported, until now.