- The last woman president of Bolivia was the former president Lidia Gueiler
Gabriela Montaño assumed on an interim President of Bolivia in replacement of Evo Morales , who travels to the United Nations assembly
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (23/SEP/2012) - The head of the Bolivian Senate Gabriela Montaño assumed on an interim President of Bolivia in replacement of Evo Morales , who travels to the United Nations Assembly, and by the absence of the Vice President Alvaro Garcia,is a mission to Vietnam, reported Sunday the Government House.
The event "will be historic" Morales said, in the transfer of command ceremony televised from the city of Santa Cruz, 900 miles east of La Paz, from whose military airfield went to New York.
The last woman president of Bolivia was the former president Lidia Gueiler (1979-80), overthrown by Colonel Luis Garcia Meza, who is serving 30 years in prison in a maximum security prison.
Montano, 37 years old and a doctor, he took as the constitutional order, is defined as "a soldier of the change process" and said he was "happy to represent women" as interim president.
Morales traveled ahead to the UN, where their participation is scheduled for next Wednesday, amid a deepening crisis consensual solution mining which asked in a speech.
The president said the UN report that his country reached three years in advance the Millennium Development Goal of water supply. "Bolivia has already reached 78% with the (supply) water for the entire population," he said.
Furthermore, "we express our demand intervention that has the town by the sea theme (on the centenary dispute with Chile, a country that requires an outlet to the Pacific)."
The Bolivian president, who will return next Thursday at La Paz, traveled to the UN headquarters accompanied by Defense Minister Ruben Saavedra, and Communication, Amanda Davila.
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A woman Provisionally Assumed the Presidency of Bolivia
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LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (23/SEP/2012) - The head of the Bolivian Senate Gabriela Montaño assumed on an interim President of Bolivia in replacement of Evo Morales , who travels to the United Nations Assembly, and by the absence of the Vice President Alvaro Garcia,is a mission to Vietnam, reported Sunday the Government House.
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