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In 2006 Evo Morales assumes the presidency of Bolivia and becomes the first Indian to govern the highland country.
In the ephemeris of January 22 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1901. Queen Victoria dies on the Isle of Wight. He came to the British throne in 1837, at the age of 18, and his reign of more than six decades is remembered as the Victorian era, a time of profound change and expansion of the British empire along with strong conservatism in customs. In 1877 she was the first empress of India. Widow since 1861, when her husband Albert of Saxony died, her descendants branched out through practically all the royal houses of Europe, with which most of the monarchies of the Old World have her as an ancestor.
● 1953. Jim Jarmusch, an icon of American independent cinema, was born in Ohio. Stranger Than Paradise, in 1984, launched him to fame. Titles such as Mystery Train, Dead man, Coffe and cigarettes, broken flowers Y Paterson.
● 1962. The OAS Assembly begins in Punta del Este. The meeting of foreign ministers has a single objective: to isolate Fidel Castro’s Cuba due to its affiliation to the USSR. The United States manages to expel Cuba from the inter-American system, but does not obtain the favorable vote of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and Mexico, who abstain.
● 1973. In his hometown of Stonewall, Texas, he dies Lyndon Johnson at 64 years old. He fought in the Navy during World War II while he was a congressman. In 1948 he reached the Senate. He was a key member of the Democratic Party in the Upper House and John Kennedy chose him as his running mate in 1960. Elected vice president, he had to replace JFK in 1963 following the Dallas assassination. He won by a wide margin in the presidential elections the following year, while enacting the Civil Rights Act, a decisive instrument to end racial segregation. He increased the military presence in Vietnam, amid growing unpopularity, while promoting social reforms known as the Great Society, which resulted in the creation of health insurance for the elderly and poor, Medicare and Medicaid, respectively. He did not want to compete for re-election in the convulsive 1968 of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and handed over the command to Richard Nixon.
● 2006. Evo Morales assumes the presidency of Bolivia. He is the first Indian to rule the highland country. He did politics from unionism in the coca workers’ union. He surprised by winning the 2005 elections, following a serious institutional crisis. On the same day in 2010 and 2015 he assumed his next presidencies. His term ended with the 2019 coup.
● 2014. At the age of 49, Fabio Manes, a film collector and promoter, dies. Drove Film library with Fernando Martín Peña on Public Television. He was the creator of bizarre midnights, a cycle of class B movies that over time installed the term “bizarre” as a synonym for grotesque or surreal, when in Spanish it alludes to bravery. He is remembered as one of the most generous cinephiles.
● 2018. Ursula K. Le Guin dies, in Portland, Oregon. She was 88 years old. She was one of the greatest science-fiction and fantasy writers. In the first field, he established himself with novels such as The left hand of the darkness and the dispossessed. In the fantastic field, his saga of books stands out Terramar. Those genres allowed her to explore topics like feminism. He won the Hugo Award eight times and the Nebula Award six times, the most important prizes in fantasy and science fiction literature. With four hands, he wrote Twins of the dream together with the Argentine poet Diana Bellessi. It received a recognition at the National Book Awards in 2014.
