Snow falls in west of Bolivia in same week as wildfires in scorched east

Bolivia’s western highlands have been hit by a wave of snow, days after firefighters’ battled forest blazes in the Santa Cruz department of eastern Bolivia. Street vendors in western cities such as El Alto and La Paz hope the snow will help grow vegetation and bring down soaring food prices. On the eastern side, thousands of hectares of grassland have been destroyed by fires caused by a heatwave