“Outlookers of a Monumental Fire”: the Fire in Chubut Reached the Camp of a Renowned Rural Leader

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Juan Goya, third generation farmer in Esquel and leader of the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA), spoke of “unrecoverable” environmental losses and a devastating emotional impact

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The advance of the forest fires in Patagonia again showed its cruder face in Chubut, where the fire advances for days on rural areas, mountain areas and native forest sectors. Beyond the official statistics and daily parts, the drama is lived in the first person in the fields, where producers and families see the fire approaching, entering and razing with everything in its path. That is the case of Juan Goya, agricultural producer of the Esquel …

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In a passage from the talk, about the end of the interview, Juan Goya’s account is cut short. His temper and patience as an agricultural producer find no answer to a problem that he had never lived on his property in Chubut: the fires. Goya is the fourth generation of a livestock family, specialists in producing top quality merino sheep to market wool and meat, with a plant that exceeds 7,500 heads. But they also launched to the production of ca…