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Los Tiempos was founded on 16 September 1943 by Demetrio Canelas, [2] who had already founded the newspaper La Patria in Oruro in 1919. [4] He was assaulted and practically destroyed by a mob of militants of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement on 9 November 1953, [5] resuming its publications on 19 July 1967 with the premiere of a rotary offset.
In December 2006, Reyes Villa called for Cochabamba to hold a second referendum to give Cochabamba autonomy from the central government. [3] Reyes Villa claimed that the measure was only defeated before because the Morales government misled voters, saying "People thought autonomy meant you would need a passport to travel from one province to ...
Cochabamba was the first place rugby union in Bolivia was formally established. Cochabamba was featured as a location in the story in the 1983 film, Scarface. Powerful drug lord Alejandro Sosa resided there, governed large coca plantations and owned cocaine labs whereupon further refining, would be shipped to Tony Montana in Florida.
Cives Mundi also produced its own cultural material. In 2002 it published the book Crónica de Cochabamba (The Cochabamba Chronicles) [18] by the journalist José Luis Bravo. The book is a reflection of the life of the inhabitants in Cochabamba, and is focused on the actions developed in the Peruvian region. [19]
This region is marked by steep hills and mountains at the edge of the Central Andes descending into the flat floodplains of the Llanos de Moxos to the north of Cochabamba. Further east of this region is a transition zone between the Tropical Wet-and-Dry forests of Santa Cruz and the Chapare, where Monsoonal climates predominate with an average ...
By January 2023, 16 same-sex couples had entered into a free union in Bolivia; 8 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 5 in La Paz, and 3 in Cochabamba. [ 29 ] On 22 June 2022, the Constitutional Tribunal ruled in favour of same-sex civil unions, ordering the SERECI to register all civil unions and directed the Legislative Assembly to pass legislation ...
Cochabamba Department (Spanish: Departamento de Cochabamba) was a department of Bolivia, a constituent country of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, which existed from 1836 to 1839. [1] Created alongside the confederate state, its capital was Cochabamba .
UNITEL (UNIVERSAL DE TELEVISIÓN) [1] is a Bolivian commercial television network headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, La Paz and Cochabamba, Bolivia.It was founded in 1987 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra as Teleoriente, which in 1997 created the current network and bought two Telesistema Boliviano stations.