Fireworks explosion at Bolivia military base kills at least 10, wounds 60+

On a Friday afternoon in Viacha, Bolivia, a fireworks stockpile stored within a military barracks ignited without warning, killing at least ten people and wounding more than sixty in a blast powerful enough to reach into the surrounding civilian neighborhood. The explosion, roughly thirty kilometres from La Paz, raises enduring questions about how societies balance the proximity of military infrastructure to ordinary life — and what obligations of care are owed to those who live in its shadow. As emergency workers labored through the evening and a secondary explosion remained possible, the eve