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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]
The Diablada, also known as the Danza de los Diablos (English: Dance of the Devils), is an Andean folk dance performed in Bolivia, in the Altiplano region of South America, characterized by performers wearing masks and costumes representing the devil and other characters from pre-Columbian theology and mythology.
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 ...
Agencia Boliviana de Información (ABI) is a government press agency based in Bolivia. Based in La Paz, it provides information in Spanish. External links
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).
In her career as an actress, Cobo also participated in works of the Company of Social Theater of the famous playwright and mayor of La Paz, Raúl Salmón. [4] She also appeared in Marcos Loayza [ es ] 's short film El olor de la vejez , based on the books Los cuartos and Vidas y muertes by Jaime Sáenz .
Traditional folk dress during a festival in Bolivia. Bolivia is a country in South America, bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, Chile to the west, and Peru to the west. The cultural development of what is now Bolivia is divided into three distinct periods: pre-Columbian, colonial, and republican.
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.