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Arturo Murillo
Arturo Carlos Murillo Prijic (born 27 December 1963) is a Bolivian businessman, hotelier, and politician who served as the Ministry of Government (Bolivia), minister of government from 2019 to 2020. As a member of the National Unity Front, he previously served as a Chamber of Senators (Bolivia), senator for Cochabamba Department, Cochabamba from 2015 to 2019 and as a wikt:plurinominal, plurinominal member of the Chamber of Deputies (Bolivia), Chamber of Deputies from Cochabamba from 2006 to 2010. Murillo was appointed at the tail end of the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, 2019 political crisis, and he quickly became characterized as one of the "strong men" of the Jeanine Áñez administration. Minutes after his inauguration, he announced the "hunt" for ex-officials of Evo Morales's government under various criminal charges and warned of severe consequences for acts of sedition. In May 2020, Murillo was alleged to be the ringleader in the tear gas case, in which the Ministries of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murillo (surname)
__NOTOC__ Murillo is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the name include: * Ander Murillo (born 1983), Spanish association football player * Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Spanish artist * Catalina Murillo Valverde (born 1970), Costa Rican writer * Jeison Murillo (born 1992), Colombian footballer * Jesús Murillo Karam (born 1947), governor of Hidalgo and attorney-general of Mexico * Juan Murillo (born 1982), Venezuelan road cyclist * Manuel Murillo Toro (1816–1880), Colombian president and writer * Marino Murillo (born 1961), Cuban communist official * Óscar Murillo (born 1988), Colombian footballer * Oscar Murillo (artist) (born 1986), Colombian artist * Pedro Domingo Murillo (1757–1810), independentist leader of Bolivia * (1696–1753), Spanish Jesuit and cartographer of the Philippines * Soledad Murillo (born 1956), Spanish academic and politician {{Surname Spanish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 come from its indigenous population, his administration worked towards the implementation of left-wing policies, focusing on the legal protections and socioeconomic conditions of Bolivia's previously marginalized indigenous population and combating the political influence of the United States and resource-extracting multinational corporations. Ideologically a socialist, he led the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party from 1998 to 2024. Born to an Aymara family of subsistence farmers in Isallawi, Orinoca Canton, Morales undertook a basic education and mandatory military service before moving to the Chapare Province in 1978. Growing coca and becoming a trade unionist, he rose to prominence in the '' campesino'' ("rural laborers") union. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Bolivian General Election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 18 December 2005. Evo Morales of the Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, Movement for Socialism (MAS) party was elected President of Bolivia with 54% of the vote, the first time a candidate had received an absolute majority since the flawed 1978 Bolivian general election, 1978 elections. Morales was sworn in on 22 January 2006 for a five-year term. The MAS also won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and emerged as the largest party in the Senate. Simultaneously voters elected prefects, the highest executive office in each of Bolivia's Departments of Bolivia, nine departments. This was the first time the office had been chosen at the ballot box. Subsequently, departmental elections were held separately from national elections, with the next one held in April 2010. Background In the early 2000s there were high levels of political instability across the country, including five presid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Doria Medina
Samuel Doria Medina Auza (born 4 December 1958) is a politician in Bolivia and former businessman. From 1987 until 2014 he was the President and main shareholder in SOBOCE. SOBOCE is the largest cement manufacturer in Bolivia. Politics He is the leader of the National Unity Front and represented the party alongside Carlos Fernando Dabdoub Arrien in the December 2005 Presidential Elections. In that election, Doria Medina finished 3rd with 7.8% of the national vote. He ran again in the 2009 elections and won 5.65% of the vote. Doria Medina ran once again in the 2014 elections; coming out second with 25.1 of the vote. He has sought to position himself and his party as a moderate third force in Bolivian politics. Personal life Medina married Nidia Monje Postigo in 1983 and has six children. On 21 January 2005, Medina was travelling aboard a Cessna 208 Caravan, operated by Línea Aérea Amaszonas Línea Aérea Amaszonas S.A. operating as Amas Bolivia (legally as ''Compañ� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapare Province
Chapare (, also called The Chapare, is a rural province in the northern region of Cochabamba Department in central Bolivia. Most of the territory consists of valley rainforests that surround the area's main waterway, the Chapare River, which is also a tributary of the Amazon River. The provincial capital is Sacaba, 11 km east of Cochabamba. Its principal town is Villa Tunari, a popular tourist destination. In recent decades, the Chapare province has become a haven for illegal cultivation of the coca plant, which can be used to produce cocaine. This is due to Bolivian drug law, which until recently only permitted the Yungas region to legally grow coca, despite Chapare being a historical area for growth due to its fertility. For this reason, Chapare has been a primary target for coca eradication in recent years, with frequent and heated clashes between the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Bolivian cocaleros. The law has since been changed by a deal that was struck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocalero
Cocaleros are the coca leaf growers of Peru and Bolivia. In response to U.S.-funded attempts to eradicate and fumigate coca crops in the Chapare region of Bolivia, cocaleros joined with other grassroots indigenous organizations in the country, such as unionized mine workers and peasants to contest the government. Evo Morales, who became president of Bolivia in 2006, was a leader of the cocalero movement in that country. Coca and the war on drugs Coca has been cultivated for 8,000 years by indigenous people in the Andes for medicinal and religious reasons. As a stimulant, it is helpful in overcoming altitude sickness in the high Andes, and can be chewed and made into tea. Other medicinal uses include pain relief, staunching blood flow, combating malaria, ulcers, asthma and improving digestion. It is also configured in many religious ceremonies as offerings to Apus, Inti, and the Pachamama and as a method of divination. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Tunari
Villa Tunari or Tunari is a location in the department of Cochabamba Department, Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the seat of the Villa Tunari Municipality, the third Municipalities of Bolivia, municipal section of the Chapare Province. According to the census 2012 the population was 3,213 in the town which is an increment from 2,510 registered during the 2001 census. Villa Tunari has several parks located nearby including Parque Machía and Carrasco National Park. Parque Machía is home to one of three wildlife centers maintained by Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi and supported by international volunteers. Villa Tunari is famous among tourists due to the tropical weather and due to nearby national parks. Recently the town gained important infrastructure due to the tourist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida
Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Straits of Florida to the south, and The Bahamas to the southeast. About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. It has the List of U.S. states by coastline, longest coastline in the contiguous United States, spanning approximately , not including its many barrier islands. It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of over 23 million, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, third-most populous state in the United States and ranks List of states and territories of the United States by population density, seventh in population density as of 2020. Florida spans , ranking List of U.S. states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and Federal law enforcement in the United States, its principal federal law enforcement agency. An agency of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI is a member of the United States Intelligence Community, U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the United States Attorney General, attorney general and the Director of National Intelligence, director of national intelligence. A leading American counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigative organization, the FBI has jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of Federal crime in the United States, federal crimes. Although many of the FBI's functions are unique, its activities in support of national security are comparable to those of the British MI5 and National Crime Agency, NCA, the New Zealand Government Communications Security ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Arce
Luis Alberto Arce Catacora (; born 28 September 1963), often referred to as Lucho, is a Bolivian banker, economist, and politician serving as the 67th president of Bolivia since 2020. A member of the Movement for Socialism (Bolivia), Movement for Socialism, he previously served as minister of finance—later Ministry of Economy and Public Finance (Bolivia), minister of economy and public finance—from 2006 to 2017, and in 2019. Born in La Paz, Arce graduated as an economist at the University of Warwick. His lifelong career in banking and accounting at the Central Bank of Bolivia prompted President Evo Morales to appoint him as minister of finance in 2006. For over ten years as Morales' longest-serving minister, Arce was hailed as the architect behind Bolivia's economic transformation, overseeing the nationalization of the country's hydrocarbons industry, the rapid expansion of Gross domestic product, GDP, and the reduction of poverty. His tenure was only brought to an end by a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Fernando López
Luis Fernando López Julio (born 15 October 1964) is a Bolivian businessman, retired military officer, and politician who served as minister of defense from 2019 to 2020. Appointed in the tail end of the 2019 political crisis, López, along with Minister of Government Arturo Murillo, quickly became characterized as the "strong men" of the Jeanine Áñez administration and were implicated in the deadly events at Senkata and Sacaba. López was called to hearings by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly but failed to present himself three consecutive times, ultimately resulting in his censure by the legislature. As per the terms of the Constitution, he was dismissed as minister but, exploiting a loophole in the document's text, he was reappointed just a day later. Soon after, reports revealed his participation in the tear gas case, which accused the ministries of government and defense of irregularly purchasing non-lethal weapons at inflated prices. After the 2020 general elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
