Also in the 19th century, most countries of South America introduced a flag as they became independent ( Peru in 1820, Bolivia in 1851, Colombia in 1860, Brazil in 1822, etc.

In consequence, the Huari and Tiwanaku, who dwelt inland in the Andes became the predominant cultures of the region encompassing much of modern-day Peru and Bolivia.

Since the image of Bolívar became central to the national identities of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, his mantle is claimed by nearly all politicians from all parts of the political spectrum.

Relations soured even more after Bolivia lost its coast to Chile during the War of the Pacific and became a landlocked country ( Bolivia still claims a corridor to the Pacific Ocean.

On 14 May 1941, Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano was reorganized as a state-owned company and became the flag carrier of Bolivia, which led to an expansion of the destinations served, as well as a fleet modernization.

In 1960, Richard James left the company after his wife filed for divorce and he became an evangelical missionary in Bolivia.

With the Spanish American Wars of Independence ( 1810-1825 ) Aymaras became subjects of Bolivia and Peru and after the War of the Pacific ( 1879-1883 ) Chile acquired the Aymaran population.

Following the Bolivian War of Independence, the region became an independent country and was renamed Bolivia in honour of Simón Bolívar.

Corretjer and her music became well known in Puerto Rico, Latin American countries, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil ( where she lived for six months ) and the United States.

Protests and demands became more focused: the cocaleros continued protesting against eradication of a milenary plant ( coca ) although Banzer ’ s " Coca 0 " policy had been replaced by the earlier subsidized crop substitution policy for gradual coca reduction but not total eradication ; the indigenous farmers of the La Paz Aymara region wanted a " re-founding " of Bolivia, with the recognition and inclusion of Bolivia's indigenous ethnic groups as legitimate political blocs, and a type of economic de-centralization based on said recognition of indigenous groups as legitimate political actors.

With the growth of the Colombian drug cartels in the 1980s, coca leaf became a valuable agricultural commodity, particularly in Peru and Bolivia, where the quality of coca is higher than in Colombia.

Instead he found what became known as the " terror archives ", detailing the fates of thousands of Latin Americans secretly kidnapped, tortured and killed by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Modern Bolivia and Paraguay were lost during the conflict, and became new states.

The jacket he often wears ( in Bolivian Spanish, a chompa ) became his unofficial symbol and copies of it sold widely throughout Bolivia.

Singing and composing songs that became huge hits in Bolivia and would later become Andean standards.

He was called to Peru by Simón Bolívar and became " Director for Public Education, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Arts " and " Director of Mines, Agriculture and Public Roads " of Bolivia.

Upon its inauguration, Viru Viru became the most important airport in Bolivia and its main gateway of international flights, despite Santa Cruz being only the second largest metropolitan area in Bolivia.

Among the party's most prominent supporters one can name ( in addition to Paz and Siles ) historical figures such as Humberto Guzmán Fricke, Juan Lechín, Walter Guevara Arze, Lydia Gueiler, Augusto Céspedes, Guillermo Bedregal, and Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, a number of whom became presidents of Bolivia.

Chile gained control of saltpeter-rich areas, previously controlled by Peru and Bolivia, and Bolivia became a land-locked nation.

They were then reannexed by the Viceroyalty of Peru, and it later would became the modern nation of Bolivia.

The city also became an important staging point for Jesuit Missions to Chiquitos and Moxos, leading to the conversion of thousands of Guaranies, Moxeños, Chiquitanos, Guarayos, and Chiriguanos that eventually became part of the racially mixed population of the modern Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, and Tarija departaments of Bolivia.

Uruguay's location between Argentina and Brazil makes close relations with these two larger neighbors and MERCOSUR associate members Chile and Bolivia particularly important.

In the late 1960s he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Havana in Cuba, and became an associate of Che Guevara in Bolivia.

He has also worked as a casting associate and consultant in the U. S. and Bolivia.

Mercosur-the customs union that includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay-entered into force January 1, 1995 ; Bolivia, Chile, and Venezuela joined the pact subsequently as associate members.

* 1525 — Aleixo Garcia explored the Rio de la Plata in service to Spain, as a member of the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís, and later-from Santa Catarina, Brazil-leading an expedition of some Europeans and 2, 000 Guaraní Indians, explored Paraguay and Bolivia.

Bolivia was a founding member of the Andean Group, a South American organization designed to promote trade among Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, the United States, and Venezuela.

Bolivia is a member of the United Nations and some of its specialized agencies and related programs ; OAS ; Andean Community ; INTELSAT ; Non-Aligned Movement ; International Parliamentary Union ; Latin American Integration Association ALADI ; World Trade Organization ; Rio Treaty ; Rio Group ; MERCOSUR ; and Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia ( URUPABOL, restarted in 1993 ).

Bolivia is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the United States-military ( as covered under Article 98 ).

Bolivia is a full member of CELAC.

Bolivia is a full member of the South American Union.

Bolivia is a full member of OAS.

Bolivia is a full member of the CAN

A lifelong member of the Liberal Party of Bolivia ( which was in control of the Presidency from 1899 to 1920 ), Tejada was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1914, and appointed Minister of Finance by President José Gutiérrez Guerra in 1917.

CEMICOR has since dissolved and the CWG ( NZ ) is now a member of the International Trotskyist Fraction ( FLT ) together with Workers ' Democracy ( Argentina ), the International Workers ' Party ( Chile ), Revolutionary Trotskyist League ( Peru ), Red October International ( Bolivia ) and the Trotskyist Fraction ( Brazil ).

Likewise, Sanguinetti was an active member of the Support Group ( Uruguay, Peru, Brazil and Argentina ) of the Contadora Group ( Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama ), an informal consultative forum dedicated to exploring preventive measures against the expansion of armed conflicts in Central America, which, in December 1986 decided to merge with the so-called Group of Eight, which in turn was called the Río Group in October 1990 coinciding with its expansion to include Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay.

Bolivia, and Colombia ( a new CONMEBOL member ) withdrew from the tournament.

The member states are Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Japan ( 27 July 2006 ), Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Korea ( 5 June 2007 ), Spain, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

When that party came to power as a result of the 1952 National Revolution, Gueiler became a member of the Congress of Bolivia, serving in that capacity from 1956 until 1964.

This member of the tanager family is found from Nicaragua to Panama, on Trinidad, and in South America south to Bolivia and northern Argentina.

Colombia – member since 1936 – withdrew again from the tournament, as well as Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.

Yungasocereus inquisivensis is a species of cactus native to Bolivia, the sole member of its genus, Yungasocereus.