From Jimmy Ortiz webpage, excerpts follow: The Battle of Santa Barbara … A bit of history: The Battle of Santa Barbara was the second battle for Santa Cruz independence, during the Republiqueta (1813-1816). In that period we fought together with the military and intellectual Manuel Belgrano and his Libertarian Second Army, which put the Colonel….
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Bolivian independence: The Battle of Chicaloma
Jose Alberto Diez de Medina writes in El Diario: The Battle of Chicaloma The Revolution of July 16, 1809 triggered the formation of the first independent government of America, against the actions of Spain. Then, the Viceroy of Peru, called a realist, winding and bloody military, Jose Manuel de Goyeneche, to quell the uprising subversive…
Bolivian Robot achieved third place in global competition
ANF reports in Pagina Siete: Should seek visible and invisible land mines National Robot achieved third place in global competition The international humanitarian demining competition gathered 94 representatives of Egypt, Chile and Portugal, among other countries. The Bolivian B0sweeper robot, created by students and engineers from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), took third…
A wonderful exhibition: “Masamaclay”, history of the Chaco War
El Diario reports: “Masamaclay”, history of the Chaco War The different perceptions of a war, in this case the Chaco that faced Bolivia and Paraguay are the leitmotif of the exhibition entitled “Masamaclay” which brings together the work of 16 Bolivian artists selected by the curators, Helena Malatesta of Paraguay with Joaquín Sánchez and José…
Bolivia History 101: Battles of the Bolivian-Peruvian Confederation: the Iruya victory
From June 11, 1928, Luis Crespo wrote for El Diario: Battles of the Bolivian-Peruvian Confederation: the Iruya victory ROSAS DECLARES WAR ON BOLIVIA The establishment of the Peru Bolivian Confederation, so lucky conducted by General Andrés de Santa Cruz, could never be regarded with indifference by the neighboring countries, especially Chile and Argentina. The declaration…
Bolivian History 101: Brazil occupies Bolivian Acre territory!
Luis S. Crespo writes in El Diario, March 20, 1928: Brazil occupies Bolivia’s Acre The vanguard of the military expedition sent from Rio de Janeiro to invade the Acre, a command under Major Agostinho Gomes Raimundo Castro, occupied and took official possession of the barraca [farm] “Empresa”, obeying the orders and instructions of the Government…
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