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  List of Presidents of Niger|President Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The President is a member of the Federal Council elected by the Swiss Federal Assembly (the Swiss Parliament) for a year; and the President is merely ''primus inter pares'' (first among equals).
President for Life is a title assumed by some dictators to ensure that their authority or legitimacy is never questioned.
In FranceFrench legal terminology, the president of a court consisting of multiple judges is the foremost judge; he chairs the meeting of the court and directs the debates (and this thus addressed as "Mr President", ''Monsieur le Président'', or appropriate feminine forms).
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 Bolivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bolivia is a land of sharp contrasts with climatic conditions ranging from arctic to tropical.
Furthermore, Bolivia was relatively free of the rampant terrorism, insurgency, and criminal violence that afflicted the larger Andean nations of Colombia and Peru.
Bolivia's growth prospects were constrained by its dependence on Argentine payments for a large share of its export revenues, poorly diversified exports, low domestic savings, and high levels of foreign debt.
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 friendly dictators
In 1970, in Bolivia, when then-President Juan Jose Torres nationalized Gulf Oil properties and tin mines owned by US interests, and tried to establish friendly relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union, he was playing with fire.
President Carter tried to cut US ties to WACL, but Ronald Reagan received campaign funds from the group, and WACL became involved with training and supplying contras in Argentina and Taiwan.
President Reagan claimed Rios Montt was given "a bum rap" by human rights groups, and that he was cleaning up problems inherited from his predecessor, General Romeo Lucas Garcia.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html   (9246 words)

  
 BOLIVIA - Online Information article about BOLIVIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It possesses only one large river in Bolivia, the Pilcomayo, which rises on the east slopes of the Cordillera Oriental opposite the south end of Lake Pampa Aullaguas and flows east and south-east through the sierra region to the Bolivian Chaco.
The hills, known as the Chiquitos, which rise from the plains of eastern Bolivia, are composed of ancient sedimentary rocks of unknown age.
Fauna.—The indigenous fauna of Bolivia corresponds closely to that of the neighbouring districts of Argentina, Brazil and Peru.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BOLIVIA.html   (6779 words)

  
 Carlos Mesa biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As vice president under the previous president of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Mesa assumed the post when extensive protests and strikes shut down Bolivia in a bitter dispute known as the Bolivian Gas War, forcing Sánchez de Lozada to resign and flee the country.
Bolivia's next presidential elections were scheduled for 2007, but Mesa was quick to point out that his administration was transitional and that he did not intend to complete Sánchez de Lozada's term in office.
In March of 2004, Mesa announced that the government of Bolivia would hold a series of rallies around the country, and in Bolivian embassies overseas, demanding that Chile return to Bolivia a stretch of seacoast which Bolivia lost at the end of the War of the Pacific.
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 Country Commercial Guide Bolivia 2002
Bolivia's successive administrations since the hyperinflationary period of the early 1980s have maintained fiscal and monetary discipline and thereby successfully avoided recurrences of the scourge of uncontrolled inflation.
Bolivia's installed electrical power generating capacity is rated at 995 megawatts (MW) and a demand about 627 MW as of December 2000.
President Hugo Banzer and his vice presidential candidate Jorge Quiroga (of the center/right ADN party) polled around 23% of the popular vote in a field of ten candidates, took office on August 6, 1997.
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 Hugo Banzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Served as President of the Republic twice: from August 22, 1971 to July 21, 1978, as a de facto incumbent; and again from August 6, 1997 to August 7, 2001, but now as a Constitutional incumbent.
Descendant of German immigrants, Banzer attended military schools in Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and United States, included the Armoured Cavalry School at Fort Hood, Texas, and the renowned School of the Americas at the Panama Canal, where was trained in tactics.
In October 1970 he took part in a rightist coup d'état that deposed the then military president, Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candía, but Banzer's triumvirate was inmediately overthrown by a countercoup staged by Gen., a leftist official.
www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hugo_B%E1nzer_Suarez   (465 words)

  
 Carlos Mesa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As vice president under the previous president, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, Mesa assumed the post when extensive protests and strikes shut down Bolivia in a bitter dispute known as the Bolivian Gas War/, forcing Sánchez de Lozada to resign and flee the country.
Bolivia's President Carlos Mesa criticized thousands of demonstrators who again brought the capital La Paz to a standstill persisting with demands the government nationalize the country's lucrative natural gas industry.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) -- Thousands of indigenous marchers descended on Bolivia's besieged capital to surround Congress on Wednesday and said they would not lift their two-week protest until demands for nationalizing the energy sector are met.
www.infothis.com /find/Carlos_Mesa   (785 words)

  
 TED Case Study: Bolivia Gas Pipeline
Estimations for the length and width of the Bolivia- Brazil pipeline are 2,100 miles and 36 inches.
Fifty percent of Bolivia's land mass consists of virgin tropical rainforests and marsh lands, and all of this land is located in the country's eastern section.
President Sanchez de Lozada has stated his desire to conserve the lowlands and restore some of the damage to local ecosystems so as to continue production of other agricultural products, such as soya.
www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/bolpipe.htm   (1656 words)

  
 Truth Commissions Digital Collection: Library and Links: Jeannette Rankin Library Program: U.S. Institute of Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The commission was later enacted in 2000 by the President and Parliament.
The final report of the Commission was transmitted to the President of Sierra Leone on October 5, 2004 and presented to the United Nations Security Council October 27, 2004.
In mid-August 2000, a commission established by President Jorge Batelle began its investigation of the fate of the disappeared during the military regime in power from 1973 to 1985.
www.usip.org /library/truth.html   (4174 words)

  
 EmbaBol :: Bolivia
Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas, and the Minister of the Presidency of Bolivia, Mr.
We provided Bolivia with an estimated $154 million in assistance in fiscal year 2003 and plan to provide approximately $150 million in fiscal year 2004, pending, obviously, the Congressional appropriation.
In the Monterrey Summit of the Americas, besides the multilateral exercise, besides the adoption of a consensus political declaration, we had many meetings among presidents and bilateral meetings, and in that regard, it was important for many of them, again, to focus on the special Bolivian needs.
www.bolivia-usa.org /apoyo/apoyo_2004_01_19_state.htm   (2389 words)

  
 Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
President Mesa has warned that the country is sliding into civil war and has appealed to his Santa Cruz vice president to submit to elections.
President Mesa is required to sign or veto the lousy 32% gas royalties law that’s been proposed by tomorrow.
Bolivia’s passed its Hydrocarbons Law, on fairly miserable terms that will be sure to chase out foreign investment, dispirit President Carlos Mesa, rouse Evo Morales to block roads and starve cities, and drive separatist sentiment in pro-trade Santa Cruz province.
www.publiuspundit.com /index.php?cat=49   (11434 words)

  
 Religion of History's 100 Most Influential People
Other philosophers on this list made contributions which had an impact on religion but are not founders of a religion or branch of religion.
I just glanced at your list of the 100 most influential people and their religion and all I can say is this list is terrible at best.
Abdullah has written a list of 16 Reasons why Muhammad (not Jesus) should be ranked first on the list of history's most influential people.
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 Bolivia travel Bolivia tours Bolivia information about trips hotels and Amazon lodges in Bolivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bolivia is South America´s most enigmatic country, landlocked and frozen in time.
Because Bolivia is a region largely undiscovered by conventional tourism, and information about routes and circuits is scant, in—depth knowledge of the terrain and comprehensive pre trip advise are key to ensure a successful trip.
All the photographs, inside the Bolivia section were taken by Katrin Kübber during trips around Bolivia and are protected by copyright law and international treaties.
www.ecuaworld.com /bolivia.html   (519 words)

  
 Female Presidents
Acting President of the Congress and acting Deputy Head of State 1978-79.She was President of Partido Revolucionario de los Izquierda Nazional Gueiler 1979-94, Exile in France 1980-82, Ambassador in Embassy to West Germany 1982-83, and to Venezuela 1983-86 and since 1993 She was deposed by the 129
As President of the People's Chamber she was acting as the last Head of State of the German Democratic Republic, DDR/GDR before the reunification.
During the Civil War the President was killed and as the highest ranking remaining official, she became Acting President (27.10.93-5.2.94).
www.guide2womenleaders.com /Presidents.htm   (2349 words)

  
 MABB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The graph lists the population per department and the ammount of funds it receives from the central government via the so called "co-participation", which is the term used in Bolivia to talk about the distribution of funds.
In the case of the elections for congressional seats, the Constitution said that in case the presidential office was taken by the presiden of the Supreme Court, he was supposed to inmediately call for presidential and vice-presidential elections.
As for the prefectural elections, the arguments presented to the court were grounded in the reasoning that, again the Constitution said, the president would be the one who appointed prefects.
www.mabb.blogspot.com   (4640 words)

  
 El Sur
According to the leader (Luis Pérez Gutiérrez, president of the Federación Colombiana de Municipios), all are subjected to a "war of paper" that was seeking in a manner economical to the guerilla to intimidate the officials and create a climate of chaos and ingovernability.
She indicated that the president, who travelled to San Vicente on the same day, saw it and gave no gesture to make it possible for her to travel in his helicopter or in one of the others.
Reckoning: Former President Luis Echeverría (1970-1976) is being investigated for human rights violations during his presidency and when he was interior minister, reports the Financial Times.
elsur.blogspot.com /2002_07_01_elsur_archive.html   (17028 words)

  
 Historians in the News: Latest
President Bush has nominated Middle East expert Daniel Pipes to the board of directors at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Seattle Times: Historian Richard McCormick was pressured to resign as president of the University of Washington following an affair with an employee; left to take post as president of Rutgers at twice the salary.
Jennings, president of Conscience International and a former professor of history and Islamic studies, just returned from a trip to Iraq where he opposed war.
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 IAA Newsletter - March 2005
President Alf Guldberg was present at the Biennial President’s dinner in Ireland as well as at the 7th Global Congress of Actuaries in New Delhi, India (see report in this newsletter).
Liyaquat Khan, President ASI, highlighting the achievement of ASI towards the globalisation of the actuarial profession and the setting up of the Mortality and Morbidity Investigation Bureau, and a special address by Mr.
Ofer Brandt, the newly elected president and the chief life and health actuary at Clal Insurance, said that the "Actuarial profession in Israel is going through a time of ‘troubled water’ of new regulation changes affecting the duties, responsibilities and position of actuaries working in the Israeli insurance and pension markets." Mr.
www.actuaries.org /LIBRARY/Newsletters/March2005_EN.htm   (7337 words)

  
 Links for 1920   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
List of entities that have issued postage stamps
List of members of the Swiss Federal Council
List of Canadian Secretaries of State for External Affairs
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 ZNet Bolivia Watch
By the time the march ended that night in a shower of tear gas, rubber bullets and water hosing, their demands had changed.
As the dust settles from a wave of mobilisations that paralysed a nation, Bolivia finds itself with a president increasingly unable to govern.
He announced that as a result of continual protests and growing blockades, he was no longer willing to, “govern based on the crazy things different sectors demand,” and planned to submit his resignation to Congress the next day.
www.zmag.org /lam/boliviawatch.cfm?Subtopic=5   (376 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Bolivarian Presidents: Conversations and Correspondence with Presidents of Bolivia, Peru, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Bolivarian Presidents: Conversations and Correspondence with Presidents of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela
Mediated by the personal perceptions of speakers and interviewers alike, the book's greatest value will be for political historians already familiar with the events and personalities under discussion.
In this volume, he provides interview transcripts and letters from most of the recent presidents of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0275946614   (361 words)

  
 Bolivia
Met with President Banzer and Foreign Affairs Minister Adriazola.
Met with President Paz and senior Bolivian officials.
Met with President Banzer and Foreign Minister de la Rocha.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/trvl/12837.htm   (89 words)

  
 Ecuador Presidents of Ecuador Presidents Ecuador
Famous words: "Give me a balcony and I will be the President".
Fabian Alarcon 1997 - 1998 Elected "Interim President" by Congress until 1998.
21.01 after an indean and military revolution the presidents quit
www.ecuaworld.com /discover/president.htm   (331 words)

  
 Board Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Judy is also a co-founder and President of Celebration Women’s Ministry, Inc., a woman to woman ministry in the Texas Annual Conference.
He is president of the Mississippi Fellowship of United Methodist Evangelicals, a renewal group within the UM Church and in association with the Confessing Movement.
Currently, she serves as Clergy Advisor for Wilmington District Lay Speakers Committee, president of her Conference Wesley Seminary Graduates Association, and vice president of the Board of Directors of Delaware Ecumenical Agency.
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 CyberSleuthkids: Boliva
Largest and most comprehensive resource of information about Bolivia.
At the Virtual Field Trip site you can learn about CARE's valuable rural and urban projects in Bolivia through journal entries, a photo album, and related links.
Information about the geography, society and culture of Bolivia.
www.cybersleuth-kids.com /sleuth/Geography/South_America/Boliva   (241 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Italy
head of government: Prime Minister (referred to in Italy as the president of the Council of Ministers) Silvio BERLUSCONI (since 10 June 2001)
elections: president elected by an electoral college consisting of both houses of Parliament and 58 regional representatives for a seven-year term; election last held 13 May 1999 (next to be held NA May 2006); prime minister appointed by the president and confirmed by Parliament
Constitutional Court or Corte Costituzionale (composed of 15 judges: one-third appointed by the president, one-third elected by Parliament, one-third elected by the ordinary and administrative Supreme Courts)
www.brainyatlas.com /geos/it.html   (1338 words)

  
 Bolivia verzamelgids, Toerisme/Tourism/Turismo Cultuur/Culture/Cultura Achtergrondinformatie/Bac ...
Bolivia verzamelgids, Toerisme/Tourism/Turismo Cultuur/Culture/Cultura Achtergrondinformatie/Bac Overheid/Government/Gobie Reisgidsen/Guides/Guias (bolivia.verzamelgids.nl)
Bolivia (officieel: República de Bolivia) is een presidentiële republiek in Zuid-Amerika.Bolivia is ongeveer 26x zo groot als Nederland.
- Butch Cassidy en The Sundance Kid in Bolivia en
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