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Law enforcement in Bolivia is reliant on the 40,000-member Cuerpo de Policía Nacional (National Police Corps) responsible for internal security and maintaining law and order. [3] [1] [2] Unlike many South American countries, the Bolivian police force always has been accountable to the national government rather than to state or local officials ...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Spanish: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores) is a Bolivian government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Bolivia. The minister since 15 November 2023 is Celinda Sosa Lunda.
The Ministry of the Presidency (Spanish: Ministerio de la Presidencia) is the department of the Government of Bolivia that provides support to the presidential administration by coordinating its political-administrative actions with the different ministries as well as the legislative, judicial, and electoral branches of government in addition to social sectors and cooperatives.
The National Electoral Court (Spanish: Corte Nacional Electoral) was the government-appointed court which oversaw elections and electoral results at all levels of Bolivian government from 1956 to 2010, and supervised nine Departmental Electoral Courts in each department.
The Special Actions Force of the Bolivarian National Police (Spanish: Fuerza de Acción Especial de la Policía Nacional Bolivariana, FAES) was created by President Nicolás Maduro to "combat crime and terrorism" in 2017. [4] It has around 1,300 officers and includes the Unidad de Operaciones Tácticas Especiales (UOTE) a police tactical unit. [5]
Bolivia is divided into nine departments (departamentos, singular – departamento); Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Tarija. Bolivia's nine departments received greater autonomy under the Administrative Decentralization law of 1995. Departmental autonomy further increased with the first popular elections ...
Popular Organization Movement Movimiento de Organización Popular: Potosí: United to Renew Unidos para Renovar (UNIR) Tarija: Popular Solidarity Alliance Alianza Solidaria Popular (ASIP) Santa Cruz: Security, Order and Liberty Seguridad, Orden y Libertad (SOL) Santa Cruz: Building Future Construyendo Futuro: Beni: Autonomous Nationalities for ...
The Bolivian Navy takes part in many parades and government functions, but none more so than the Día Del Mar (Day of the Sea) in which Bolivia, every year, asks for the coast territories lost to Chile during the War of the Pacific (fought between Peru and Bolivia against Chile) from 1879 to 1884. This is still a sore point for Bolivia ...