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Dia del trabajo Paid holiday, occurs on Monday if it falls on a Sunday May 27 Mother's Day: Dia de la Madre Boliviana June 21 Aymara New Year: Año Nuevo Andino August 6 Independence Day: Dia de la Patria October 11 Women's Day: Dia de la Mujer Boliviana November 2 All Souls' Day: Fieles Difuntos December 25 Christmas Day: Navidad
She is also a member of the Society for Economic Botany (SEB), the Asociación Latinoamericana de Botánica (ALB), the Grupo Latinoamericano de Etnobotánica - Grupo de Bolivia (GELA), the Organización Boliviana para Mujeres en la Ciencia and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World. Mural dedicated to Paniagua-Zambrana ...
She was a member, vice president (1958), and president (1962 and 1963) of the Ladies Committee of the Lions Club of La Paz. In 1958 she founded and was the first president of the Confederation of National Women's Institutions (Confederación de Nacional de Instituciones Femeninas; CONIF). She was a board member of the Women's Center for ...
Bartolina Sisa, her husband and other indigenous leaders like José Gabriel Condorcanqui, Simon Bolivar, and Jose deSan Martin. Jose was later known as Túpac Amaru II, and the brothers Damasio and Tomás Katari were joined together in their ideals of indigenous empowerment and managed to gather around 150,000 indigenous, mostly Quechuas and Aymaras, to join their cause.
At this time, the city of La Paz was under siege by indigenous people, who were still at war with Spanish forces. The story of the origin of the Ekeko starts with Paulita Tintaya, an Indian girl who worked for Doña Josefa Ursula de Rojas Foronda, in La Paz. The girl was in love with Isidoro Choquehuanca.
The Bartolina Sisa National Confederation of Campesino, Indigenous, and Native Women of Bolivia (Spanish: Confederación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas Indígenas Originarias de Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa”; CNMCIOB-BS; informally, the Bartolina Sisas) is the primary union organization of peasant women in Bolivia, and the women's organization with the largest membership in the country.
Juana Azurduy de Padilla (July 12, 1780 – May 25, 1862) [1] was a guerrilla military leader from Chuquisaca, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (now Sucre, Bolivia). [2] She fought for Bolivian and Argentine independence alongside her husband, Manuel Ascencio Padilla , earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
The Bicentennial of Bolivia (Spanish: Bicentenario de Bolivia) is set to occur on 6 August 2025 and is considered in Bolivia to be the beginning of independence due to the Chuquisaca Revolution of 1809. In 2025, the bicentennial of the Bolivian Declaration of Independence will be celebrated in the same way. As part of the events for the ...