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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.
El Alto, Bolivia; Armenia, Colombia; Asunción, Paraguay [74]; Avellaneda, Argentina; Benito Juárez, Mexico; Bilbao, Spain; Chapecó, Brazil; Concepción, Chile ...
El Deber (Santa Cruz de la Sierra) El Día; El Diario — began publication 5 April 1904; oldest currently in circulation [1] La Estrella del Oriente (Santa Cruz de la Sierra) Hoy; Jornada — began publication February 1948 [1] La Misión; El Mundo (Santa Cruz de la Sierra) El Nacional ; El Nuevo Día (Santa Cruz de la Sierra) Nuevo Sur
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Cochabamba Water War, [2] also known as the Bolivian Water War, was a series of protests that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia's fourth largest city, between December 1999 and April 2000 in response to the privatization of the city's municipal water supply company SEMAPA.
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 ...