Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz declared a nationwide state of emergency on Saturday to mobilize emergency funds, government resources, and rescue operations in response to catastrophic weather anomalies caused by the severe El Niño phenomenon.
In a televised address to the nation, President Paz directed government institutions to coordinate immediate disaster relief across Bolivia’s hardest-hit regions suffering from dual crises of extreme drought and severe flash flooding. A government report released this week indicates that six out of Bolivia’s nine provinces are experiencing severe drought conditions, severely affecting approximately 78,000 families and killing more than 75,000 livestock.
Read nextQatari LNG Tanker 'Al Mayeda' Struck by Unidentified Objects in Persian GulfThe United Nations issued a grave warning this week, cautioning that the ongoing El Niño cycle—driven by abnormal surface water temperature increases in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean—could escalate into an "unprecedented" global disaster across Latin America, East and South Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. The climatic impact is already reverberating across South America: neighboring Peru has reported at least 12 deaths due to soaring temperatures and raging wildfires, while Chile experienced its wettest October in recorded history, with Santiago breaking all-time precipitation records.
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