Order of the Condor of the Andes
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The Order of the Condor of the Andes (Orden Nacional del Cóndor de los Andes) is a medal of the Bolivian government.
Instituted on April 12, 1925, the Order is awarded for exceptional merit, either civil or military, shown by Bolivians or foreign nationals. There are six grades: Collar, Grand Cross, Grand Officer, Commander, Officer, and Knight.
In 2002 the Order was awarded to the Pan American Health Organization
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Instituted on April 12, 1925, the Order is awarded for exceptional merit, either civil or military, shown by Bolivians or foreign nationals. There are six grades: Collar, Grand Cross, Grand Officer, Commander, Officer, and Knight.
Recipients
Recipients of the Order include:- German chancellor Konrad AdenauerKonrad AdenauerKonrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer was a German statesman. He was the chancellor of the West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is widely recognised as a person who led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that had forged close relations with old enemies France,...
- Mexican-American activist Ernesto GalarzaErnesto GalarzaErnesto Galarza was a Mexican-American labor activist, professor, poet and writer, a key figure in the history of immigrant farm worker organization in California.- Early career :...
- Clark Hewitt GallowayClark Hewitt GallowayColonel Clark Hewitt Galloway was an American newspaper and magazine editor, Latin American affairs expert and Colonel in the United States Army....
- Bolivian poet Jaime Choque Mata
- Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghPrince Philip, Duke of EdinburghPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....
- Josip Broz TitoJosip Broz TitoMarshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...
- American scientist Merle TuveMerle TuveMerle Anthony Tuve, PhD was an American scientist and geophysicist who was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He was a pioneer in the use of pulsed radio waves whose discoveries opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear...
- Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I
- Paraguyan dictator Alfredo StroessnerAlfredo StroessnerAlfredo Stroessner Matiauda, whose name is also spelled Strössner or Strößner , was a Paraguayan military officer and dictator from 1954 to 1989...
In 2002 the Order was awarded to the Pan American Health Organization
Pan American Health Organization
The Pan American Health Organization is an international public health agency with over 100 years of experience working to improve health and living standards of the people of the Americas...
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