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The first organized opposition to the regime came from the churches. [3] The committee, more commonly known as "Committee for Peace" (Spanish: Comité Pro Paz; also Comité Pro Paz en Chile) was founded by the Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Pentecostal Churches, as well as the Jewish community in Chile.
The accusations stemmed from Arias' appointment of a public official as director of the La Paz Communications Center despite the individual's lack of required credentials. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] In June 2021, Third Anti-Corruption Judge Claudia Castro placed Arias under a restriction order, barring him from leaving the country and ordering him to post ...
Gesto por la Paz banner at a 2007 march in Bilbao Gesto por la Paz ( Spanish : A Gesture for Peace) was a peace movement that was active in the Spanish Basque Country between 1985 and 2013. [ 1 ] Gesto had its roots in an intitiave sponsored by the Catholic Church . [ 2 ]
La Paz was founded on 20 October 1548, by the Spanish conquistador Captain Alonso de Mendoza, at the site of the Inca settlement of Laja as a connecting point between the commercial routes that led from Potosí and Oruro to Lima; the full name of the city was originally Nuestra Señora de La Paz (meaning Our Lady of Peace) in commemoration of ...
La Paz is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of 20,275 km 2 (7,828 sq mi) makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area. [1] It had a population of 290,286 inhabitants in the 2015 census. [2] Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.
La Paz is located on the Baja California peninsula on the Bay of La Paz, 210 kilometres (130 mi) south of Ciudad Constitución, municipality of Comondú, and 202 kilometres (126 mi) north of Cabo San Lucas, municipality of Los Cabos. It is located 81 kilometres (50 mi) north of the town of Todos Santos. Its geographical coordinates are 24°08 ...
The municipality consists of 18 localities (15 urban and 3 rural), of which its municipal seat, Los Reyes Acaquilpan, also known as Los Reyes La Paz, which had a 2010 census population of 85,359 inhabitants, is the largest. Line A of the Mexico City Metro terminates in Los Reyes at the station called Metro La Paz.
In 1781, for a total of six months, a group of Aymara people laid siege to La Paz. Under the leadership of Túpac Katari, they destroyed churches and government property.. Despite the failure of the indigenous people, who were eventually crushed by the military alliance of Spanish and Creoles, thoughts of independence continued flourish