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Gabriel Gosálvez
Gabriel Gosálvez Tejada (15 November 1899 – 12 December 1957) was a Bolivian politician, journalist, economist, and diplomat. Throughout his political career, Gosálvez held various ministerial officers and diplomatic posts as a member of the United Socialist Party. When that party merged into the Republican Socialist Unity Party, Gosálvez was presented as its presidential candidate in the 1951 general election. Early life Gabriel Gosálvez was born in the Yungas region of the La Paz Department on 15 November 1899. As a child, he moved to the capital La Paz where he studied at the National Institute of Commerce, later teaching there in 1921. During his time, Gosálvez developed the nickname ''Gabicho'' which he maintained for the rest of his life. He later entered the Higher University of San Andrés in 1911, graduating with a degree in Commercial and Financial Sciences on 24 February 1923. In 1920, Gosálvez participated in the foundation of ''El Hombre Libre'', a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tejada (surname)
Tejada is a surname of Spanish origin. It is locational from the town of Tejada. Distribution The distribution of Spanish births, are most common in Seville with 9.57% of people with the surname and it being their first surname, Madrid (7.90%), Barcelona (7.85%), Granada (6.83%) and Badajoz (6.71%). People * Cosme Gómez Tejada de los Reyes (died c. 1661), Spanish writer, poet and dramatist * Manuel de Velasco y Tejada (born 17th c.), Spanish commander *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pius XII
Pius ( , ) Latin for "pious", is a masculine given name. Its feminine form is Pia. It may refer to: People Popes * Pope Pius (other) * Antipope Pius XIII (1918-2009), who led the breakaway True Catholic Church sect Given name * Pius Bazighe (born 1972), Nigerian javelin thrower * Pius Heinz (born 1989), German professional poker player who won the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event * Pius F. Koakanu (died 1885), Hawaiian politician * Pius Ncube, Catholic Archbishop of Harare and outspoken critic of Robert Mugabe * Pius Schwert (1892-1941), American politician and baseball player Surname * Märt Pius (born 1989), Estonian actor * Priit Pius (born 1989), Estonian actor Fictional characters * Pius Thicknesse, in the ''Harry Potter'' series * Pius XIII the eponymous Pope in the HBO series ''The Young Pope'' * Pius XV, in the ''Babylon 5'' science fiction saga, a fictional early 22nd century pope featured in the novel ''Dark Genesis'' See also * PIUS reactor, a Swedis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities by population, third-most populous city in Bolivia. Its metropolitan area, which is formed by La Paz, El Alto, Achocalla Municipality, Achocalla, Viacha Municipality, Viacha, and Mecapaca Municipality, Mecapaca makes up the second most populous urban area in Bolivia, with a population of 2.0 million, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra with a population of 2.3 million. It is also the capital of the La Paz Department, Bolivia, La Paz Department. The city, in west-central Bolivia southeast of Lake Titicaca, is set in a canyon created by the Choqueyapu River. It is in a bowl-like depression, part of the Amazon basin, surrounded by the high mountains of the Altiplano. Overlooking the city is the towering, triple-peaked Illimani. Its peak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Paz Department (Bolivia)
The La Paz Department of Bolivia comprises with a 2012 census population of 2,706,359 inhabitants. It is situated at the western border of Bolivia, sharing Lake Titicaca with adjacent Peru. It contains the '' Cordillera Real'', which reaches altitudes of . Northeast of the Cordillera Real are the ''Yungas'', the steep eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains that make the transition to the Amazon River basin to the northeast. The capital of the department is the city of La Paz and is the administrative city and seat of government/national capital of Bolivia. Provinces The Department of La Paz is divided into 20 provinces (''provincias'') which are further subdivided into 85 municipalities (''municipios'') and - on the fourth level - into cantons. The provinces with their capitals are: Government The chief executive office of Bolivia's departments (since May 2010) is the Governor; before then, the office was called the Prefect, and until 2006 the prefect was appointed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yungas
The Yungas (Aymara ''yunka'' warm or temperate Andes or earth, Quechua ''yunka'' warm area on the slopes of the Andes) is a bioregion of a narrow band of forest along the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains from Peru and Bolivia, and extends into Northwest Argentina at the slope of the Andes pre-cordillera. It is a transitional zone between the Andean highlands and the eastern forests. Like the surrounding areas, the Yungas belong to the Neotropical realm; the climate is rainy, humid, and warm. Setting The Yungas forests are extremely diverse, ranging from moist lowland forest to evergreen montane forest and cloud forests. The terrain, formed by valleys, fluvial mountain trails and streams, is extremely rugged and varied, contributing to the ecological diversity and richness. A complex mosaic of habitats occur with changing latitude as well as elevation. There are high levels of biodiversity and species endemism throughout the Yungas regions. Many of the forests are evergreen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Bolivian General Election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 6 May 1951.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p133 Víctor Paz Estenssoro of the opposition Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) received the most votes in the presidential election, but as he did not obtain an absolute majority, the National Congress was constitutionally obliged to elect a President on 6 August from the three candidates who received the most public votes. However, on 16 May a military junta assumed responsibility for the Government with Brigadier General Hugo Ballivián as President. The National Congress was ultimately dissolved by Supreme Decree of 7 June, 1951, which annulled the results of the elections. Electoral system Until 1956, Bolivia did not have universal suffrage. Rather, the country operated under the "qualified vote" system in which deputies elected in parish and provincial boards then voted in general elections. Under this system, ballots for president and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higher University Of San Andrés
Higher University of San Andrés (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés or UMSA or Major University of San Andrés) is the leading public university in Bolivia, established since 1830 in the city of La Paz. UMSA is the second-oldest university in Bolivia, after the University of San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca (1624). It is one of the most prestigious higher academic centers in the country. As of 2013, UMSA had around 80,434 registered students, making it the university with the largest student body in Bolivia. Several presidents of Bolivia have studied at the university. In 2017, the QS Latin American University Rankings placed UMSA as the best Bolivian university and in the position 91 of the Latin American Universities. History The university was founded by Andrés de Santa Cruz by Supreme Decree on 25 October 1830. Owing to its being situated in the nation's seat of government, La Paz, the Higher University of San Andrés has since its founding influenced the social life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Socialist Party (Bolivia)
The United Socialist Party (Spanish: ''Partido Socialista Unificado'', PSU) was founded on 15 March 1936, as the result of a split in the Nationalist Party in 1936 and the adhesion of some prominent members of the Republican Socialist Party in 1937, and backed by Legion of Veterans and by the regional socialist groups. The leaders of the party were Enrique Baldivieso, José Tamayo Solares, Fernando Campero Álvarez, Gabriel Gosálvez, Javier Paz Campero, Vicente Mendoza López, Hugo Ernst Rivera, Alberto Saracho, Carlos Salinas Aramayo, Francisco Lazcano Soruco, Armando Arce, and Augusto Céspedes. “''It espoused a somewhat confused corporativist philosophy, urging extensive government intervention in the economy, compulsory unionization of all workers, and the establishment of a legislature on the basis of functional, rather than geographical, representation''”. The United Socialist Party was associated with the revolutionary governments of Colonels José David Toro R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Republican Party (Bolivia)
The Socialist Republican Party ( es, Partido Republicano Socialista, PRS), whose members were also known as "Saavedristas", was a political party in Bolivia. The Socialist Republican Party emerged on January 28, 1921, as the Republican Party was bifurcated on the same day Bautista Saavedra took office as President of the country. The Socialist Republican Party was formed by Saavedra's followers. The Republican Socialist Party was formed by a reformist sector. Bautista Saavedra, a populist, represented middle-class and resented the old party's close ties to the powerful tin barons. His appeal to urban middle-class artisans, small merchants, and laborers generated a nonestablishment political base and a new class consciousness. The Republican Government of Bautista Saavedra enacted progressive social and labor codes and doubled government taxes on mining. Though more concerned for the underprivileged classes, Bautista Saavedra blatantly manipulated his populist support. In the 1925 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (Bolivia)
The Republican Party (Spanish: ''Partido Republicano'', PR) was a Bolivian political party founded in 1914. In 1914, the Liberal Party (''Partido Liberal'', PL) split and its leading intellectuals and statesmen – Bautista Saavedra Mallea, Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey, and General José Manuel Pando – created the Republican Party. Platform of Republican Party was preoccupied with the recovery of Bolivia's lost maritime territories and typically demanded more morality in government, but its program differed little from traditional Liberal slogans. In 1917, the Republicans ran Presidential candidate but were defeated in the Liberal-controlled elections. Republican Party grabbed power in a bloodless coup on 12 July 1920. After the revolution of 1920, the Republican party split into two factions, each headed by highly personalistic political caudillos, both of whom coveted the presidency: José María Escalier of the Genuine Republican Party (Escalieristas), and Bautista S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Socialist Unity Party
The Republican Socialist Unity Party (Spanish: ''Partido de la Unión Republicana Socialista'', PURS) was a political party founded on 10 November 1946 in Bolivia as the fusion of the Republican Socialist Party, the Genuine Republican Party, the United Socialist Party, and the Independent Socialist Party. Despite its socialist-sounding name, the PURS was actually a conservative party. It represented a last-ditch effort of Bolivia's traditional political establishment to oppose the forces of mass-based populism and of socialism represented by the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR). Led by Enrique Hertzog Garaizabal, Francisco Lazcano Soruca, Waldo Belmonte Pool, and Mamerto Urriolagoitía Harriague, the Republican Socialist Unity Party attempted particularly to revive the position and popularity of the old Saavedristas wing of the Republican Party. PURS favored anticommunism, ample room for free enterprise, and antifascism, primarily interpreted as opposition to the MNR. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balmaceda Park. The Andes Mountains can be seen from most points ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
