Jhanisse Vaca Daza

Jhanisse Vaca Daza is an activism outreach specialist and director of the Freedom Fellowship program at the Human Rights Foundation and cofounder of the Bolivian nonviolent citizen movement Ríos de Pie (Spanish for Standing Rivers).

Bolivia’s Silent Destruction

Bolivia’s Amazon forests are becoming scorched earth, with millions of acres lost each year to raging fires. Worse, this disaster is being caused by a government more interested in corrupt profits than protecting its people and wildlife.