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Magdalena Cajías was born on 8 October 1957 [1] in La Paz, the sixth of ten children born to Huáscar Cajías and Beatriz de la Vega. She is a member of the academically prestigious Cajías family; her father, the patriarch of the clan, was a respected journalist and intellectual, notable for having founded and directed Presencia, the premier periodical of the second half of the twentieth ...
Canedo Patiño was born in La Paz, one of five children to David Canedo and Aida Patiño del Valle. She and her family moved to California and later Paris when she was 13 years old. [3] Canedo Patiño studied in Paris, [1] and launched her design house, Royal Alpaca Inc., in New York in 1987. [4]
None. 4th Artillery Group. The 1934 Bolivian coup d'état, colloquially known as the Corralito of Villamontes ( Spanish: Corralito de Villamontes ), [a] was a military coup in Bolivia that deposed President Daniel Salamanca in the midst of the Chaco War. Two days before the coup, Salamanca and his presidential delegation arrived at the military ...
Alonso de Mendoza. Alonso de Mendoza ( c. 1471/76 – 26 June 1549) [ 1] was a Spanish captain, conquistador, and the founder of the city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz. He was appointed by Pedro de la Gasca, the "Peacemaker," to found the city to commemorate the peace in the Peruvian colonies after the defeat of the Pizarro brothers.
Signature. Hernán Iván Arias Durán (né Padilla; born 8 August 1958), often referred to as El Negro, is a Bolivian politician, political analyst, and sociologist serving as mayor of La Paz since 2021. A member of the For the Common Good, of which he is the leader, he previously served as minister of public works from 2019 to 2020 and vice ...
Ismael Montes. Ismael Montes Gamboa (5 October 1861 – 16 October 1933) was a Bolivian general and political figure who served as the 26th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1904 to 1909 and from 1913 to 1917. During his first term, the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Chile was signed on 20 October 1904.
The city of La Paz, in the region of Upper Peru (now in Bolivia but then in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata), experienced a revolution in 1809 that deposed Spanish authorities and declared independence. The revolution is considered one of the early steps of the Spanish American Wars of Independence and a predecessor of the Bolivian War ...
David Choquehuanca was born on 7 May 1961 in Cota Cota Baja, a minor hamlet situated along the shoreline of Lake Titicaca in La Paz's Omasuyos Province.An ethnic Aymara, [1] Choquehuanca traces his lineage to the Choquehuanca caciques of Asankaru, Peru, [2] a bygone Inca noble family from the line of Paullu, the last titular sapa inca of the Inca Empire—a fact that once led him to ...