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While the flames continue to raze forests, plantations and even populated areas of southern Argentina, the governors of the five affected Patagonian provinces demanded that the igneous emergency be dictated and extraordinary resources be allocated to address the critical situation. According to the provincial leaders of Chubut, Santa Cruz, Río Negro, Neuquén and La Pampa, the fires already burned almost 230,000 hectares in the accumulated of the…
The provincial leaders warned that almost 230,000 hectares had already been burned in the region.In Chubut, in addition, a judicial investigation is underway for possible negligence.
Latin American Summary, January 28, 2026 In the context of the fires that affect the Chubut mountain range, Governor Ignacio «Nacho» Torres led, together with Patagonian leaders, a virtual meeting in which national legislators were asked to declare the ignean emergency in the region. Together with the president the governors participated [...] La entrada Argentina. Patagonian governors ask Milei for the declaration of ignea emergency was first p…
Environmental Disaster in Patagonia: 230 Thousand Hectares Burned and Governors Demand Emergency Law
The governors of Río Negro, Chubut, La Pampa, Neuquén and Santa Cruz asked Congress this Tuesday to deal “urgently” with the Ignean Emergency Law in the framework of the extraordinary sessions, after a working meeting held in a virtual way. The meeting was attended by the governors of Río Negro, Alberto Weretilneck; of Chubut, Ignacio Torres; of La Pampa, Sergio Ziliotto; of Neuquén, Rolando Figueroa; and of Santa Cruz, Claudio Vidal. During the…
"Together with the governors of Patagonia, we ask the Congress of the Nation for the urgent National Declaration of Ignea Emergency, promoted by our legislators," announced the governor of Chubut, Nacho Torres, spreading on social networks an excerpt from a joint videoconference with leaders and representatives of the provinces of Río Negro, La Pampa, Neuquén and Santa Cruz.
On Monday, February 2, the extraordinary sessions in the National Congress will begin, and the agenda is still being negotiated. In the last few hours it was confirmed that, in addition to the labor reform, the EU-Mercosur agreement and the reform of the glacier regime, the Juvenile Penal Law will also be discussed and, from Patagonia, governors press to include the Ignea Emergency Law. From November to date, forest fires were charged more than …
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