EFE 20/07/2010
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While in Spain raging heat thermometers in the southern hemisphere low temperatures are prevalent. The polar cold wave that is sweeping the Southern Cone, including subtropical, so far has left at least 80 people in five countries in the region, both hypothermia and poisoning with gas because of the use of defective heating.
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Besides loss of life, poor weather conditions have caused livestock deaths in parts of Brazil neighboring Paraguay, the declaration of an agricultural emergency in southern Chile and the cancellation or suspension of dozens of regional flights at the airport Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, where legions of turistaspermanecen blocked.
In Argentina, eleven people died of hypothermia after Sunday killed a baby and an old man in the city of La Rioja (noroeste. Since the beginning of winter there was also another 33 dead in Argentina by carbon monoxide poisoning from heaters defective.
In Bolivia, the cold wave has caused 18 deaths, half of them in the city of El Alto, outside La Paz, according to the latest tally released Monday.
Low temperatures have the greatest effect in regions of eastern Bolivia, with its warm subtropical climate, where on Sunday the latest deaths were reported: two in the department of Santa Cruz and the other in Tarija, which borders northern Argentina.
Indigent death
In Santa Cruz has recorded six deaths, all poor, while in the Bolivian department of Cochabamba, killing two babies, one left and the other with his parents, with whom he lived on the street. The Ministry of Education of Bolivia canceled classes until Wednesday to prevent the spread of influenza and other diseases among students, while the weather service announced that it is expected that the cold wave across the country to last until August.
In Brazil, at least nine people, mostly homeless, have died in southern Iraq following a cold snap that dropped temperatures to unusually low levels in several cities, including some of the tropical Amazon region.
In Vilhena, a town in the Amazonian Brazilian state of Para, the temperature dropped to seven degrees and half degrees on Saturday, the lowest since 1994.
The polar cold wave has also caused two deaths in Santiago de Chile, where temperatures dropped to two degrees below zero, while the south of the country suffers a critical situation, with hundreds of people stranded by heavy snow.
In the southern region of Aysen, 1,600 kilometers from the Chilean capital, where the minimum temperatures have fluctuated between 10 and 15 degrees below zero, there are isolated populations and thousands of head of cattle and sheep at risk for lack of fodder.
Agricultural Alert
The authorities have declared a state of agricultural emergency in several locations in Aysen, where there have been power outages and closed for several days the main airport in the area in the town of Balmaceda.
Meanwhile, police in Paraguay today reported death from hypothermia in a 80 year old man in the village of Ita, near Asuncion, thus increased to five the number of people killed by the cold wave affecting the country more than a week.
This situation forced the authorities to enable shelters and collecting the streets of Asuncion and neighboring municipalities to the indigent.
So far there have been two deaths due to low temperatures in Uruguay, which this weekend fell to five degrees below zero in central and eastern regions of the country, whose weather service issued a yellow alert.
In Peru have killed 104 people in recent weeks by pneumonia and respiratory problems attributed to the cold and poor medical care.
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