Cote: The Bolivian Amazon Cry Francisco, defender of their people and the environment

Federico is a statement – the Vatican city

In the depth of the Bolivian Amazon, the memory of Pope Francis will live forever in a silent but strong biological cycle, multiplier to life and birth: those that include 13 trees planted in the bare ground in a rural area located on the banks of the Mamoré River, one of the main tributaries of the Amazon River, which designs the borders with courage. “The local community and I planted the tree on April 26, the funeral day, along with the delegation of Adveniat, a charity from German Catholics, to honor the memory of the Pope who devoted itself to the end of our forests and threatened us by the armed occupancy of Pando and Apostical Pando. D. Reyes.

Deep disappointment

Francisco’s sudden death in the local church has drowned in a state of prostration that the introduction said: “Now we all feel orphans for a man who knows how to keep his eyes on this piece of our world, which is necessary for the entire climate of humanity. A look, for many years, accompanied us, from the post Laudato yes To take care of the joint home. We have lost our teacher. All this interest from Francisco for the Amazon also has its origin at the General American Episcopate, which was held in 2007 and its final document was prepared thanks to Bergoglio, then the head of Buenos Aires. Uninterrupted continuity of the intentions and the procedures distributed throughout the Pontifat, which generated unprecedented global awareness. In this regard, Monsignor Coter does not have a doubt: “The Pope has made clear that defending the Amazon is not only a problem with a few enthusiasm, environmental scientists or a small group of non -governmental organizations, but also related to every human being. In short, she knew the issue of climate change by granting a dimension of social responsibility. ”

Awareness of “young”

But there is more. Pope Pontiole, Bando, makes Christians make appropriate environmental issues to take San Francisco de Asis as a model and repeats “that an answer should be given to environmental emergency situations that find his strength in an internal experience that allows a Christian to identify the face of God in creation.” However, local local and local officials have made deaf ears, without modifying their predatory models towards the Amazon Forest: “In people, in children, in the indigenous peoples, it was not like this: among them, interest increased to the point that the simple and effective responses have appeared below those who try to reversed the direction of resources. They have realized that there would be no future for anyone if the Amazon is still used to seize random wood, intense livestock, mono culture and extracting gold that contaminated rivers with mercury. However, the national scientists that did not change: only in Bolivia last year, 14 million hectares of forests were burned.

The church is on the line of confrontation

The local church, preaching, in rural societies, and the priests who travel tirelessly to the rivers and forests to find believers, were not stopping to participate with the population for increasingly widespread awareness, as Pope Francis learned. In our Bolivian reality, associations and movements, especially those for young people, are required of the church, the local cartas, and to help and support the implementation of health projects for the sustainable partial economy, in relation to the environment. They are eloquent signs of will to achieve a new world. Now that Pope Francis is no longer there, we need the World Church, from Rome, to continue to defend the Amazon.