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2020 In Bolivia
Events in the year 2020 in Bolivia. Incumbents * President: Jeanine Áñez (Interim president) (until 8 November), Luis Arce (from 8 November) * Vice President: (Vacant, See 2019 Bolivian political crisis), David Choquehuanca (from 8 November) Events *10 March – Bolivia reports its first COVID-19 cases, of two individuals in the departments of Oruro and Santa Cruz. *12 March – All public school sessions are suspended in Bolivia until 31 March, as well as all commercial flights to and from Europe indefinitely. Large-scale public gatherings of more than 1,000 people are also prohibited by the government. *18 October – General elections are held. Luis Arce (MAS-IPSP) wins an outright majority of 55.1%, eliminating the necessity of a runoff vote. * 8 November – Luis Arce is inaugurated as the 67th President of Bolivia. Deaths *26 January – Alfredo Da Silva, 89, Bolivian-American artist (road accident) *2 September – Abdúl Aramayo, 86, international football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Bolivia
Education in Bolivia, as in many other areas of Bolivian life, has a divide between Bolivia's ''rural'' and urban areas. Rural illiteracy levels remain high, even as the rest of the country becomes increasingly literate. Bolivia devotes 23% of its annual budget to educational expenditures, a higher percentage than in most other South American countries, albeit from a smaller national budget. A comprehensive, education reform has made some significant changes. Initiated in 1994, the reform decentralized educational funding in order to meet diverse local needs, improved teacher training and curricula, formalized and expanded intercultural bilingual education and changed the school grade system. Resistance from teachers’ unions, however, has slowed implementation of some of the intended reforms. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) finds that Bolivia is fulfilling only 83.2% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based on the country's level of income. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years Of The 21st Century In Bolivia
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s In Bolivia
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Bolivia
Events in the year 2020 in Bolivia. Incumbents * President: Jeanine Áñez (Interim president) (until 8 November), Luis Arce (from 8 November) * Vice President: (Vacant, See 2019 Bolivian political crisis), David Choquehuanca (from 8 November) Events *10 March – Bolivia reports its first COVID-19 cases, of two individuals in the departments of Oruro and Santa Cruz. *12 March – All public school sessions are suspended in Bolivia until 31 March, as well as all commercial flights to and from Europe indefinitely. Large-scale public gatherings of more than 1,000 people are also prohibited by the government. *18 October – General elections are held. Luis Arce (MAS-IPSP) wins an outright majority of 55.1%, eliminating the necessity of a runoff vote. * 8 November – Luis Arce is inaugurated as the 67th President of Bolivia. Deaths *26 January – Alfredo Da Silva, 89, Bolivian-American artist (road accident) *2 September – Abdúl Aramayo, 86, international football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdúl Aramayo
Abdúl Aramayo (4 September 1934 – 2 September 2020) was a Bolivian footballer. He was part of Bolivia's squad that won the 1963 South American Championship on home soil. International career Aramayo was part of Bolivia's squad for the 1959 South American Championship in Argentina. He played 5 games during the tournament, the game against Argentina on 11 March being his first cap with Bolivia. During the game against Brazil on 21 March, Argentinian journalists, who came to see Garrincha, were so impressed by Aramayo's performance that they nicknamed him the "Bolivian Garrincha". His sixth cap was on 15 July 1961 against Uruguay for the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification. Aramayo was again selected in Bolivia's squad for the 1963 South American Championship and played 4 games during the tournament as Bolivia won the competition on home soil, its first and only Copa America to date. During the tournament, the game against Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2 September
Events Pre-1600 *44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. * 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his ''Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months. *31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Augustus, Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. *1192 – The Treaty of Jaffa (1192), Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade. *1561 – Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, marred by religious controversy. 1601–1900 *1601 – 4th Spanish Armada makes landfall in Ireland at Kinsale. *1649 – The Italian city of Castro, Lazio, Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro. *1666 – The Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Da Silva
Alfredo Da Silva (February 20, 1935–January 26, 2020) was a painter, graphic artist, and photographer, known for his abstract expressionism. He came to international prominence in 1959 and remained so until his death in 2020. Biography Alfredo Da Silva was born February 20, 1935, in Potosí, Bolivia. He studied firstly at the Academia de Bellas Artes de Potosí, and then subsequently at the Academia de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyredon in Buenos Aires. Da Silva had his first solo exhibition, at the age of sixteen, at the Municipal Gallery in La Paz, and he continued to show his work in both group exhibitions and solo exhibitions throughout Bolivia during the 1950s. In 1958, he obtained his degree as teacher of drawing and painting. In 1960, Da Silva’s work came to the attention of José Gómez-Sicre, then chief of the Division of Visual Arts for the Organization of American States (OAS). In 1961, Gómez-Sicre invited Da Silva to present a solo exhibition at the gallery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
