Rows of vehicles lined up for fuel make streets and avenues impassable. (EL DEBER)

Police officers were attacked. After several days of blockages, the government instructed the military forces to take back control of the roads. (EL DEBER)

The scarcity of fuel resulted in the government’s decision to call upon the military forces to surveil the sale of diesel fuel and gasoline.

The scarcity of diesel fuel and gasoline affected capital cities and provinces alike. People lined up in their vehicles and with containers to stock up on fuel. (EL DEBER)

Milk producers took to the streets to protest against the damage caused by the 23 days of blockage led by the Evo Morales’s followers. (EL DEBER)

Bus drivers get in line waiting for fuel. The lack of fuel affected the country’s productive system and utilities. (EL DEBER)

Firefighters inspect an area that was torched by the fire in Chiquitanía. Forest fires burned almost ten million hectares that were mostly protected areas. (EL DEBER)

A scorched sign with a devastating message. Ten million hectares of forest have gone due to the indifference of authorities that delayed interventions in tropical forests for months. (EL DEBER)

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the most populated city in Bolivia, is seen covered in smoke due to the uncontrollable forest fires in the region. For days, the quality of the air was disastrous in this thriving city. (EL DEBER)

Indigenous communities of Santa Cruz marched into the capital to request the fires to be put out, and for their lands to be left alone.

Civil society spoke against those who set the forests on fire. (EL DEBER)

Bolivian forests burned for more than three months. Six of those ten million hectares were forest lands. (EL DEBER)

Many of them were locals from the affected communities. Their resources came from donations. (EL DEBER)

Fire burned down a shelter of blue-throated macaws, an endangered species. (EL DEBER)

Forest fires are a wicked method to clear forest lands for agricultural expansion. (EL DEBER)