Overview

• Viceministerio de Defensa Civil has placed 92 municipalities in disaster and 12 in emergency across Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro, Potosí and Tarija, with Tarija under a departmental disaster declaration and Potosí in a state of emergency
• Authorities report the cold wave has impacted about 400,000 families in 3,499 communities and caused the deaths of two children from hypothermia
• Severe frosts have critically damaged potato, broad bean and maize crops in rural areas of Cochabamba and Potosí, threatening local food supplies
• The Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología forecasts continued temperature drops through July, keeping western departments at subzero levels
• Many remote towns remain cut off by icy roads and lack adequate heating infrastructure, prompting officials to consider additional emergency measures to reach isolated families