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Ashes cover the ground on a part of the forest near Santa Monica, in the municipality of Concepción REUTERS / Edgard Garrido

In Bolivia, the rains of this weekend have overcome fires raging for over a month in the Amazon region in the east of the country. Nearly 4 million hectares were still devastated. And especially the fields of some small farmers.

With our special correspondent in the Bolivian Amazon, Lucile Gimberg

The rain that fell on the forest of Chiquitania this weekend is a relief for the peasants who live there. But in more than a month, the flames have already done terrible damage . Donatos Graça grows corn and sesame in the community of Palmar. " We store our seeds right next to where we grow, and it burns. We have nothing left to plant. I do not know what we are going to do this year. We do not have money to buy seeds. I am sad, I live with all my family. All our food burned, we have nothing. And it's the same for most people in the village, they have nothing . "

Donato moved to the small Amazonian town of Concepción, 150 km of tracks, to ask for help to the authorities: food and medicine especially. Because children are sick. Moises Camacho, a teacher in the same village, accompanies him: " In recent weeks, children have started to get sick. They have sore eyes, head, stomach ache. They may have been intoxicated by the thick fumes that we had in our village . "

Last week, one of their neighbors died while trying to prevent the fire from invading his supply of rice, which he had just sorted before sowing.