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Bolivia Government 1996
La Paz (seat of government); Sucre (legal capital and seat of judiciary)
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Administrative divisions:
9 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento); Chuquisaca,
Cochabamba, Beni, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Tarija
6 August 1825 (from Spain)
Independence Day, 6 August (1825)
based on Spanish law and Code Napoleon; has not accepted compulsory ICJ
jurisdiction
18 years of age, universal and compulsory (married); 21 years of age,
universal and compulsory (single)
chief of state and head of government:
President Gonzalo SANCHEZ DE LOZADA Bustamente (since 6 August 1993); Vice
President Victor Hugo CARDENAS Conde (since 6 August 1993); election last
held 6 June 1993 (next to be held May 1997); results - Gonzalo SANCHEZ DE
LOZADA (MNR) 34%, Hugo BANZER Suarez (ADN/MIR alliance) 20%, Carlos PALENQUE
Aviles (CONDEPA) 14%, Max FERNANDEZ Rojas (UCS) 13%, Antonio ARANIBAR
Quiroga (MBL) 5%; no candidate received a majority of the popular vote;
Gonzalo SANCHEZ DE LOZADA won a congressional runoff election on 4 August
1993 after forming a coalition with Max FERNANDEZ and Antonio ARANIBAR;
FERNANDEZ left the coalition in 1994
Cabinet; appointed by the president from panel proposed by the Senate
bicameral National Congress (Congreso Nacional)
Chamber of Deputies (Camara de Diputados):
elections last held 6 June 1993 (next to be held May 1997); results -
percent of vote by party NA; seats - (130 total) MNR 52, UCS 20, ADN 17, MIR
17, CONDEPA 13, MBL 7, ARBOL 1, ASD 1, EJE 1, PCD 1
Chamber of Senators (Camara de Senadores):
elections last held 6 June 1993 (next to be held May 1997); results -
percent of vote by party NA; seats - (27 total) MNR 17, ADN 4, MIR 4,
CONDEPA 1, UCS 1
Supreme Court (Corte Suprema)
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Political parties and leaders:
Free Bolivia Movement (MBL), Antonio ARANIBAR; April 9 Revolutionary
Vanguard (VR-9), Carlos SERRATE; Alternative of Democratic Socialism (ASD),
Jerjes JUSTIANO; Revolutionary Front of the Left (FRI), Oscar ZAMORA;
Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB); Socialist Unzaguista Movement (MAS);
Socialist Party One (PS-1); Bolivian Communist Party (PCB)
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR), Gonzalo SANCHEZ DE LOZADA;
Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), Jaime PAZ Zamora, Oscar EID;
Christian Democrat (PCD), Jorge AGREDA
Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN), Jorge LANDIVAR, Hugo BANZER
Civic Solidarity Union (UCS), Max FERNANDEZ Rojas; Conscience of the
Fatherland (CONDEPA), Carlos PALENQUE Aviles; Popular Patriotic Movement
(MPP), Julio MANTILLA; Unity and Progress Movement (MUP), Ivo KULJIS
Bolivian Renovating Alliance (ARBOL), Hugo VILLEGAS
Tupac Katari Revolutionary Liberation Movement (MRTK-L), Victor Hugo
CARDENAS Conde; Patriotic Axis of Convergence (EJE-P), Ramiro BARRANCHEA;
National Katarista Movement (MKN), Fernando UNTOJA
AG, ECLAC, FAO, G-11, G-77, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD,
IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM, ITU, LAES, LAIA,
NAM, OAS, OPANAL, PCA, RG, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO,
WIPO, WMO, WTO
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Diplomatic representation in US:
Ambassador Andres PETRICEVIC Raznatovic
3014 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
[1] (202) 483-4410 through 4412
Miami, New York, and San Francisco
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US diplomatic representation:
Ambassador Curt Warren KAMMAN
Avenida Arce 2780, San Jorge, La Paz
P. O. Box 425, La Paz; APO AA 34032
three equal horizontal bands of red (top), yellow, and green with the coat
of arms centered on the yellow band; similar to the flag of Ghana, which has
a large black five-pointed star centered in the yellow band
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