The politics of Bolivia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the president is head of state, head of government and head of a diverse multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament. Both the Judiciary and the electoral branch are independent of the executive and the legislature. After the 2014 election, 53.1% of the seats in national parliament were held by women, a higher proportion of women than that of the population.
Tinku, a Bolivian Aymara tradition, began as a form of ritualistic combat. In the Quechua language, it means “meeting-encounter". During this ritual, men and women from different communities will meet and begin the festivities by dancing. The women will then form circles and begin chanting while the men proceed to fight each other; rarely the women will join in the fighting as well. Large tinkus are held in Potosí during the first few weeks of May.
Don Francisco Javier del Granado y Granado, was a poet laureate and favorite son of Bolivia.
The Bolivian Red Cross was officially founded in Bolivia on May 15, 1917. It has its headquarters in La Paz.
Gastón Arce Sejas is a Bolivian performer, conductor, pedagogue and composer of contemporary music. His work is considered one of the main references of Bolivia’s modern music of the last two decades.
The Academia Boliviana de la Lengua is an association of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Bolivia. It is a member of the Association of Spanish Language Academies.
Florencio Ruck Pozadas Cordero (1939-1968) was a percussionist and composer pioneer of the electroacoustic music, and post serial composition techniques in Bolivia.
Javier Parrado is a Bolivian classical composer, whose works have been performed in Europe, and Latin America.
Blas Tardío de Guzmán was a Bolivian criollo composer, one of four notable criollo students of Juan de Araujo. He succeeded Juan Guerra y Biedma as chapelmaster, maestro de capilla, of the Cathedral of Sucre, then called La Plata, in 1745.
Blanca Wiethüchter López was a Bolivian writer, historian, and publisher. Her parents were German immigrants. She became one of the most enigmatic and recognized authors of Bolivian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. She published essays, short stories, and poems. Hers was one of the iconic female voices of Bolivian poetry of the late 20th century. Her writing spanned three decades, from the mid-1970s until her death in 2004. She graduated in Letters from the Higher University of San Andrés and in Learning sciences from the Sorbonne; she earned a Master's degree in Latin American Literature at the University of Paris. Wiethüchter was editor of the cultural supplement in "La Hormiga Eléctrica" in of the literary magazines Hipótesis and Piedra Imán. She served as editorial director of "Hombrecito sentado" and "Mujercita Sentada"; and was the co-founder of the cultural space Puraduralubia (1993). She taught at the Catholic University of Bolivia and the Higher University of San Andrés.
Alberto Villalpando is a Bolivian composer.
Eduardo Morales Caso, is a Cuban composer.
Eduardo Caba was a Bolivian nationalist composer, a pianist and a music professor. He spent the most part of his professional life in Buenos Aires and his last ten years in La Paz.
Modesta Sanginés Uriarte was one of the principal composers in 19th century Bolivia. Writing over fifty compositions, her works were published in 2015. In addition to composing, Sanginés worked as a journalist writing articles to benefit women and published legends of her native country. Her philanthropic works provided social services for the elderly, orphans and poor, building a hospital wing to care for those who were unable to provide for themselves. She also used her musical talents to raise funds to assist the wounded and prisoners of war during the war between Bolivia, Chile and Peru over control of the Pacific coast of South America.
Silvia Velarde Pereyra, better known by her stage name, Sibah, is a Bolivian blues and rock and roll singer-songwriter.
Mariana Prado Noya is a Bolivian business administrator and politician. She served as the Minister of Development Planning from 2017 to 2019, during the third government of Evo Morales.
Eduardo Arze Quiroga was a Bolivian scholar, journalist, politician, and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1960 to 1962 in the second cabinet of Víctor Paz Estenssoro. Prior to that, he served in various diplomatic offices in the governments of Enrique Peñaranda and Gualberto Villarroel.
The Achá Cabinet constituted the 26th to 29th cabinets of the Bolivian Republic. It was formed on 17 May 1861 after José María de Achá was elected by the Constituent National Assembly, succeeding the Governmental Junta of the Republic. It was dissolved on 28 December 1864 when Achá was overthrown in a coup d'état.