J2480-2011 Actions

• Jun 14, 2011: ADOPTED
• Jun 14, 2011: REPORTED TO CALENDAR FOR CONSIDERATION
• Jun 10, 2011: REFERRED TO FINANCE

J2480-2011 Text

 ATIVE  RESOLUTION commemorating the 186th Anniversary of the Inde-
 ce of Bolivia on August 6, 2011

 S, The Bolivian region in the Andes has likely been inhabited  for
   20,000  years;  it was home to the Tiwanakan culture, the Moxos,
 , and later the Incas until the Spanish conquest in 1525; and
 EAS, What is today Bolivia was long deemed a part of  the  Spanish
 yalty of Peru, known as Alto Peru; and
 EAS, There was a long conflict in authority between Upper Peru and
 and the colonies with the Spanish crown; this conflict of authori-
 sulted  in  a  local power struggle in Upper Peru between 1808 and
 which constituted the first steps taken toward autonomy; and
 EAS, In 1808, the President of the Audiencia, Ramon Garcia Leon de
 o, leaned towards affiliation with Carlotta, but  the  oidores  of
 udiencia  favored  the Supreme Central Junta; on May 25, 1809, the
 s deposed President Garcia Leon de Pizarro and established a junta
 ern in the name of Ferdinand VII; and
 EAS, During the following  seven  years,  Upper  Peru  became  the
 ground  for  forces of the United Provinces of the River Plate and
 st troops from Peru; although the royalists repulsed three  Argen-
 invasions,  guerrillas  controlled parts of the countryside, where
 ormed six major republiquetas; and
 EAS, By 1817, Upper  Peru  was  relatively  quiet  and  under  the
 l of the Viceroyalty of Peru; and
 EAS, By the early 1820s, General Simon Bolivar succeeded in liber-
  both  Venezuela and Colombia from Spanish domination; in 1822, he
 ched Antonio Jose de Sucre to Ecuador to defeat the  Royalists  at
 ttle of Pichincha; and
 EAS,  After  years of guerrilla action against the Spanish and the
 ies of Bolivar and Sucre in the battles  of  Junin  and  Ayacucho,
 on its independence; and
 EAS,  At  this  point, Sucre incited a declaration of independence
 to Peru, and exactly one year later, on August 6,  1825,  the  new
 ic of Bolivia was founded by a constitutional congress in honor of
 Bolivar; and
 EAS, Bolivar and Sucre served as Bolivia's first and second presi-
  and
 EAS, Many Bolivians have made New York their home, and this Legis-
   Body  is  justly  proud  to  thank the Bolivian people for their
 butions to this great Empire State; now, therefore, be it
 LVED, That this Legislative Body pause  in  its  deliberations  to
 orate  the  186th  Anniversary  of  the Independence of Bolivia on
  6, 2011.