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The First South American Congress of Private International Law was an international congress on private international law (or conflict of laws) and an ad-hoc codifier forum of international conflict of laws treaties held in Montevideo from 25 August 1888 to 18 February 1889, [1] [2] in which eight treaties and an additional protocol were passed that covered practically all the subjects of ...
The Spanish Criminal Code of 1822 came into force in Bolivia on 2 April 1831. It was replaced by the Penal Code of 1834. [7] A Law of 3 September 1883 made provision in relation to perjury. [8] Bolivia now has a new Penal Code of 23 August 1972. [9] [10] There was a Code of Criminal Procedure of 6 August 1898.
The Court was created to supersede the Supreme Court of Bolivia, which operated from 1825 to 2011.It was first seated on 2 January 2012. [3] Due to vacancies on the Court and other problems in its final years, the Supreme Court of Justice inherited a backlog of some 8,800 cases in January 2012, which it was charged with resolving within 36 to 48 months.
It was located in Sucre, 410 kilometres to the south-east of La Paz, Bolivia's capital. The Court was created by the Supreme Decree (Decreto Supremo) of April 27, 1825, [ 1 ] which transformed the Royal Audience of Charcas ( Audiencia y Cancillería Real de La Plata de los Charcas ) of imperial Spain into the Supreme Court of the newly ...
San Pedro prison or El penal de San Pedro (Saint Peter's Prison) is the largest prison in La Paz, Bolivia and is renowned for being a society within itself. Significantly different from most correctional facilities, inmates at San Pedro have jobs inside the community, buy or rent their accommodation, and often live with their families.
Bolivia–United States relations were established in 1837 with the first ambassadorial visit from the United States to Peru–Bolivian Confederation.The Confederation dissolved in 1839, and bilateral relations did not occur until 1848 when the United States recognized Bolivia as a sovereign state and appointed John Appleton as the Chargé d'Affaires.
Bolivia is a unitary state consisting of nine departments (Spanish: departamentos). Departments are the primary subdivisions of Bolivia, and possess certain rights under the Constitution of Bolivia. Each department is represented in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly—a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the Chamber of ...
The history of Bolivia from 1964 to 1982 is a time of periodic instability under various military dictators. On November 4, 1964, power passed from the elected leader of the Bolivian National Revolution , Víctor Paz Estenssoro , to a military junta under vice-president General René Barrientos .