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the climate change, and the rich countries, and the fault to comply with Kyoto:
The floods have killed nearly 40, with tens of thousands of people forced from their homes. Health officials have also reported outbreaks of dengue fever.
While aid has arrived, landslides are delaying the evacuation of flood zones.
President Evo Morales blames the floods on developed states failing to tackle climate change. Meteorologists say the El Nino phenomenon is the root cause.
Issuing an appeal for $9.2m, the UN described the flooding as the country's most devastating disaster ever, warning that water supplies and sanitation conditions have been severely contaminated.
The first shipment of international aid has now started arriving in Bolivia from Venezuela and neighbouring Peru, with Argentina, the United States and others also lending assistance.
The International Red Cross says that more than 350,000 people have been affected, many of them poor indigenous people in remote areas of the country.
"One of the main difficulties we're facing is actually to help proper access to the most forgotten and most affected areas," said Giorgio Ferrario, the head of the regional delegation for South America of the Red Cross.
Health officials have reported more than 1,600 cases of dengue fever and 1,400 cases of malaria since the current crisis began.
Speaking about the devastation, Mr Morales, an outspoken critic of the US, accused wealthy countries of ignoring the Kyoto Protocol which seeks to halt climate change.
He said poorer nations were being made to bear the brunt of what he described as the uncontrollable quest for industrial growth by richer ones.
This type of action, he said, demonstrated a lack of concern on the part of the developed world in altering climate change and the fate of the planet.
However meteorologists say the extensive rains are connected to El Nino, the periodic phenomenon which begins with a warming of waters in the eastern Pacific.
In its 1997 incarnation, El Nino brought drought to parts of Asia and Australia, and heavy rains and floods to Latin America.
It is not thought likely to reach the same strength this year.
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So, he is wrong: this is said to be a consequence of El Niño phenomenon, nothing to do with Kioto or climate change.
This comes to complicate even more the Bolivian situation: last week, some Bolivian miners were to defend their mine with shots and dynamite.
Also the new Parliamentary Regulation obliges MAS (Movimiento al Socialismo, that is Movement to Socialism, Morales' Party) to seek agreements with the opposition. Another opposition's conquest is that two thirds of all the Parliament seats are going to be needed to approve the new constitution. Debates for this will begin on Monday.
Bolivian Exterior Minister is going to declare in the Parliament about Evo Morales' party and government's relationship with terrorist groups' such as ETA. The opposition says is very worried about the prespective of their country being converted into a terrorists' sanctuary.
Resumiendo: ha habido una serie de inundaciones en Bolivia (podeis leer el Mundo), que pueden producir una catástrofe humanitaria porque hay dengue (400 casos confirmados y 1.300 sospechosos) y malaria (1.500 enfermos) y no hay suficientes infraestructuras para que puedan llevarse los medicamentos apropiados. Tampoco están ayudando los corrimientos de tierra, que dificultan o impiden el tránsito hacia Beni, la zona más afectada.
Los metereólogos han señalado que es una consecuencia de El Niño, pero Evo Morales ha echado la culpa a la "búsqueda incontrolable de crecimiento económico por los países ricos y la negativa de éstos a controlar sus emisiones".
Por cierto, que mañana empiezan los debates para la nueva constitución, para cuya aprobación será preciso los 2/3 del Parlamento en una conquista de la oposición. La otra conquista importante es que el nuevo Reglamento Parlamentario obliga al MAS a buscar acuerdos con la oposición.
Asimismo el Ministro de Exteriores Boliviano deberá declarar en el Parlamento sobre la relación del partido y el Gobierno de Evo Morales con grupos terroristas (entre ellos ETA).
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