International
Actions to fight forest fires continue in Bolivia

October 24 |
Bolivian authorities reported Monday that work continues to extinguish fires in various provinces of the country, while more than 676 forest firefighters were mobilized in 16 municipalities with active burning.
In this regard, the Vice Minister of Civil Defense, Juan Carlos Calvimontes reported that the departments of Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, La Paz and Beni are the ones suffering from forest fires, while the official described the deployment of firefighters.
“In the country there are 16 fires officially registered, in the department of La Paz there are six”, informed Juan Carlos Calvimontes. Similarly, the department of La Paz is the most affected by fires in the municipalities of Teoponte, Guanay, Mapiri, Palos Blancos, Caranavi and San Buenaventura.
Juan Carlos Calvimontes pointed out that “we are going to enter the community of Inicua in the municipality of Palos Blancos, where all the logistics are ready, we have the heliport, we have the possible places to refill water, we have the cisterns, we have the technical support staff in place, also the forest firefighters who were displaced days ago to work in firefighting by land and air”.
He also reiterated that they will establish “an operations center, in principle in Palos Blancos and from there we will see what other type of actions will be carried out”.
Likewise, the authorities informed that a helicopter and water tankers were already deployed to work in the suffocation of the fire.
In Beni, the municipalities of Rurrenabaque and San Borja remain with fires; in Santa Cruz the affected municipalities are San Ignacio de Velasco, San Matías, Comarapa, Buena Vista and Yapacaní.
In the department of Cochabamba, the affected municipalities are Chimoré, Entre Ríos and Puerto Villarroel. “Sixty land, air and river reconnaissance and exploration operations were carried out, as well as 189 water discharge operations,” Calvimontes explained.
International
Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.
“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.
“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.
Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.
International
Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
International
Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
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