Paul Van Damme and Fortuna Vargas Mejía met 28 years ago in Puerto Villarroel, a village in the Bolivian department of Cochabamba. Van Damme was a Belgian marine biologist who found in the lagoons of the Bolivian Amazon “the closest thing to a sea.” Vargas was a native of Cochabamba who had worked as a […]
Esta es la versión en inglés, publicada por Internews, del trabajo realizado por Nicole Vargas en colaboración con Melissa Revollo, Mariela Cossío, Santiago Espinoza y Brenda Molina, del periódico Opinión, en el marco del programa Historias Saludables de Salud con Lupa.
Heavy rains caused parts of Lagos state in southwest Nigeria to flood on July 8, 2022. To illustrate the devastating effects of these rains, several social media accounts and blogs shared a photo showing poultry drowned by flooding. However, AFP Fact Check found that the picture was not from Lagos, but an old photo taken in Bolivia.