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El Porvenir, Pando Department 12 Killings of Pando peasants during the Constituent Assembly conflicts. Raid on the Hotel Las Américas: April 16, 2009 Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 3 Three foreign nationals died in the operation, whom the police identified as terrorist mercenaries, while a further two people were arrested.
Elsa Paredes was born in La Paz on 20 December 1918. Her father was the writer Rigoberto Paredes Iturri and her mother was Haydée Candia Torrico. [1] Her siblings were Orestes, Mercedes, and the well-known Antonio Paredes Candia and Rigoberto Paredes Candia. [2]
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 ...
The Bolivian Socialist Falange (Spanish: Falange Socialista Boliviana) is a Bolivian political party established in 1937. It is a far-right [ 4 ] party drawing inspiration from fascism . It was the country's second-largest party between approximately 1954 and 1974.
Lidia Gueiler Tejada (28 August 1921 – 9 May 2011) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 56th president of Bolivia on an interim basis from 1979 to 1980. She was Bolivia's first female Head of State, and the second female head of state in a republic in the history of the Americas (the first was Isabel Perón in Argentina between 1974 and 1976).
Independence of Bolivia from Spanish rule; Invasion of Chiquitos (1825) Bolivia Gran Colombia Río de la Plata Brazil: Defeat. Brazilian troops temporarily occupy the region of Chiquitos and Moxos; Simón Bolívar pledged not to support the Argentines on the issue of Cisplatina. Peruvian intervention of Bolivia (1828) Bolivia Gran Colombia Peru ...
Manuela Eras de Gandarillas (c. 1740s – 27 May 1812 [1]) is one of the Heroinas de la Coronilla. She was a blind woman, who fought for her nation's independence (cerro San Sebastian-Coronilla-close to Cochabamba , Bolivia ) on 27 May 1812.
Cochabamba (Aymara: Quchapampa; Quechua: Quchapampa) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range.It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and the fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 630,587 according to the 2012 Bolivian census. [1]