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Rogelio Mayta
Rogelio Mayta Mayta (born 16 September 1971) is a Bolivian lawyer and politician currently serving as the Foreign Minister of Bolivia since 9 November 2020 under the administration of Luis Arce. Biography Rogelio Mayta was born on 16 September 1971. He graduated as a lawyer by profession. During the course of his career, Mayta served as defense counsel for victims of the "Massacre of Black October" in El Alto which took place in 2003 during the Bolivian gas conflict. He was part of the committee promoting the liability trial against the former President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada who resigned and fled to the United States following the incident. He entered Bolivian politics at 48 years of age, participating in the 2019 general elections as a candidate for the position of Senator for the Department of La Paz on behalf of the Movement for Socialism, however those results were annulled following alleged fraud. Foreign Minister (2020–present) Following the election of Lui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Minister Of Bolivia
The Foreign Minister of Bolivia (Spanish ''Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores'' or informally ''Canciller'') is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bolivia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The current minister is Rogelio Mayta, who was appointed by President of Bolivia, president Luis Arce in November 2020. List of ministers This is a list of foreign ministers of Bolivia: *1826–1828: Facundo Jacinto Infante *1828: José Joaquín Casimiro Olañeta Guemes *1828: José Severo Feliciano Malavia *1829: Mariano del Callejo *1829: José María de Lara *1829–1831: Mariano Enrique Calvo *1831: Manuel José de Asin Franco *1832–1833: José Joaquín Casimiro Olañeta Guemes *1833–1835: Mariano Enrique Calvo *1835–1837: José Ignacio Sanjinés *1837–1838: Andrés María Torrico Camacho *1838–1839: José Joaquín Casimiro Olañeta Guemes *1839: Manuel María Urcullu *1839–1841: José María Linares *1841: José María Calvimontes *1841–1842: Manuel María Urcullu *184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the American state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola ( Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of both Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The official area of the Republic of Cuba is (without the territorial waters) but a total of 350,730 km² (135,418 sq mi) including the exclusive economic zone. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited by the Ciboney people from the 4th millennium BC with the Gua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inauguration Of Joe Biden
The inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States took place on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, marking the start of the four-year term of Joe Biden as president and Kamala Harris as vice president. The 59th presidential inauguration took place on the West Front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Biden took the presidential oath of office, before which Harris took the vice presidential oath of office. The inauguration took place amidst extraordinary political, public health, economic, and national security crises, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; outgoing President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, which provoked an attack on the United States Capitol; Trump's second impeachment; and a threat of widespread civil unrest, which stimulated a nationwide law enforcement response. Festivities were sharply curtailed by efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate the potential fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1968. He became president of his father's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization. He expanded the company's operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series ''The Apprentice (American TV series), The Apprentice''. Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies. Trump's political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. He won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Repu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charisse Phillips
Charisse Phillips is an American diplomat serving as the United States Chargé d'affaires to Bolivia between August 2020 – October 2022. Biography Charisse Phillips was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Phillips holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and government from the College of William & Mary and a Master of Arts in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. She is married to retired Foreign Service Officer Gregory Phillips. They have two sons. Her primary foreign languages are German and Spanish. Chargé d'affaires to Bolivia (2020–2022) Charisse Phillips joined the Foreign Service in 1986 after working at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, with her subsequent postings including Madrid, Spain; Hamburg, Germany; and San Salvador, El Salvador. Phillips completed an assignment as minister counselor for consular affairs in New Delhi, India. Before that, she served as senior advisor for hostage affairs in the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the United States Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chargé D'affaires
A ''chargé d'affaires'' (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is French for "charged with business", meaning they are responsible for the duties of an ambassador. ''Chargé'' is masculine in gender; the feminine form is ''chargée d'affaires''. A ''chargé'' enjoys the same privileges and immunities as an ambassador under international law, and normally these extend to their aides too. However, ''chargés d'affaires'' are outranked by ambassadors and have lower precedence at formal diplomatic events. In most cases, a diplomat serves as a ''chargé d'affaires'' on a temporary basis in the absence of the ambassador. In unusual situations, in cases where disputes between the two countries make it impossible or undesirable to send agents of a higher diplomatic rank, a ''chargé d'affaires'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Página Siete
''Página Siete'' is a daily newspaper published in La Paz, Bolivia. It was founded on 24 April 2010. Página Siete focuses on politics and economics, but it also has social and culture sections. The government of Evo Morales Juan Evo Morales Ayma (; born 26 October 1959) is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as the country's first president to c ... made several complaints against Página Siete, leading to accusations of censorship of the press. In 2013, the then director, Raúl Peñaranda, resigned, citing the continuing attacks from the government, stating "The Government is resuming a cowardly attack on Página Siete, a low attack, a vile attack on us because we are an independent newspaper". References 2010 establishments in Bolivia Mass media in La Paz Newspapers published in Bolivia Newspapers established in 2010 Spanish-language newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle East Monitor
The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is a not-for-profit press monitoring organisation and lobbying group that emerged in mid 2009. MEMO is largely focused on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, but writes about other issues in the Middle East as well. MEMO is pro-Palestinian in orientation and supports Islamist causes. MEMO is regarded as an outlet for the Muslim Brotherhood and its website strongly promotes pro-Hamas related content. MEMO is financed by the State of Qatar. Daud Abdullah, former assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, serves as the director of the organization. Events In June 2011, MEMO organized a speaking tour for Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Salah, who was banned from entering the UK by the home secretary, was held in custody pending deportation until April 2012 when an immigration tribunal ruled that the home secretary had been misled. In 2011, MEMO co-organized an event with Amnesty Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran Times
The ''Tehran Times'' is an English-language daily newspaper. Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein Beheshti, second in line in the political hierarchy following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, stated: "''Tehran Times'' is not a state-owned newspaper, rather it must be the voice of the oppressed people in the world.” Although the newspaper is not state-owned, "it aims to disseminate key tenets of the Islamic Revolution and is therefore generally supportive of the Islamic Republic of Iran's ideology". According to the Iranian-American Middle East scholar, Ray Takeyh, the ''Tehran Times'' has "close ties with the ranianForeign Ministry." Academics, ambassadors, policymakers and international affairs analysts frequently contribute to the newspaper. History The newspaper was founded in 1979 as a foreign-language voice of the Islamic Revolution. In 2002, ''the Tehran Times'' established a news agency which later came to be known as the Mehr News Agency (MNA). Now, ''Tehran Times'' and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanine Áñez
Jeanine Áñez Chávez (; born 13 June 1967) is a Bolivian lawyer, politician, and television presenter who served as the 66th president of Bolivia from 2019 to 2020. A former member of the Social Democratic Movement, she previously served two terms as senator for Beni from 2015 to 2019 on behalf of the Democratic Unity coalition and from 2010 to 2014 on behalf of the National Convergence alliance. During this time, she served as second vice president of the Senate from 2015 to 2016 and in 2019 and, briefly, was president of the Senate, also in 2019. Before that, she served as a uninominal member of the Constituent Assembly from Beni, representing circumscription 61 from 2006 to 2007 on behalf of the Social Democratic Power alliance. Born in San Joaquín, Beni, Áñez graduated as a lawyer from the José Ballivián Autonomous University, then worked in television journalism. An early advocate of departmental autonomy, in 2006, she was invited by the Social Democratic Powe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
