Bolivia: Indigenous protesters affected by wildfires march to Santa Cruz to demand action

W/S Indigenous people group march, Santa Cruz
W/S Protesters marching
M/S Protesters sitting down
M/S Protesters sitting down
C/U Protester
M/S Musicians playing to welcome protesters
M/S Protesters marching
C/U Protester
M/S Protesters marching while carrying large flag
M/S Protester chanting slogans
SOT, Adolfo Chavez, International Relations Officer of COICA (Coordinator of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon River Basin) (Spanish): "There are six points to discuss: declaration of national disaster, repeals of laws and decrees, land title for the indigenous people of the place, free and informed prior consultation, the governor must call a departmental agrarian commission. All these issues are up for dialogue between the technical commission of the government and the technical commission of the march."
M/S Protesters marching
M/S Protesters marching
M/S Protesters playing music while marching
C/U Protester chanting in Spanish: "National disaster"
W/S Protesters marching on road
W/S Protesters marching by 'Christ of Peace' statue
W/S Protesters marching through main square
W/S Protesters in church
M/S Protesters praying
W/S Protesters sitting in front of Cathedral Basilica of St. Lawrence
SOT, Orlando Socore, spokesperson for the indigenous march (Spanish): "The forest is wounded. It needs time and care to regenerate, to heal and restore life and balance, but there are also those who want to take advantage to open his body and suck him to the marrows. That is why we demand from the government a declaration of ecological pause aimed at stopping the aggression against the forest and allow its regeneration."
W/S Protesters in front of cathedral
SOT, Fernando Rojas, President of the indigenous council association (Spanish): "There are more than four million hectares burned in Beni and Santa Cruz, burned forests, dead animals, razed crops, communities that have lost all their production, domestic animals and human population that have all decreased in the middle of the flames, smoke and ashes."
W/S Tents by cathedral
M/S Protesters sleeping in tents
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