Bolivia: “The overall impact is already in the nine departments”

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Bolivian president Luis Arce informed Wednesday that, by means of a supreme decree, a national emergency situation has been declared due to the damages caused by natural disasters.

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00:00Bolivian President Luis Arce informed on Wednesday that by means of Supreme Decree, a national

00:06emergency situation has been declared due to damage caused by a natural disaster.

00:17These natural disasters are making us to declare a national emergency situation.

00:22Today, we have just issued the corresponding Supreme Decree, which will first allow us

00:29to expedite the damage factors, manage external financing resources, mobilize greater technical,

00:37logistical and economic resources to the affected places, and prepare a post-flood plan to repair

00:46what we are seeing in the country, given that the overall impact is already in the nine

00:52departments.

00:58Army briefings showed that these rainfalls had not been recorded in the country for over

01:03forty years.

01:04Therefore, we are really going through a very complicated situation, so we need to raise

01:10our attention from the national government to the departments thus.

01:18We are calling for an extraordinary National Council next Monday morning here in Casa Grande

01:24to be able to assess more carefully with governors from the different departments as

01:30we need to restore all areas.

01:35Many people who are unfortunately going through a very complicated situation, they can be

01:42sure that the Bolivian government is working and it will continue working to solve the

01:47problems of many families that unfortunately today are facing these predicaments as a result

01:54of natural disasters.

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