Order of the Condor of the Andes

Order of the Condor of the Andes
Awarded by the Government of Bolivia
Type	Order
Awarded for	"For exceptional civil or military merit shown by Bolivians or foreigners."
Status	Currently awarded
Grades	Grand Collar; Grand Cross; Grand Officer; Commander; Officer; Knight

The Order of the Condor of the Andes (Spanish: La Orden del Cóndor de los Andes) is a state decoration of the Plurinational State of Bolivia instituted on 12 April 1925.[1] The Order is awarded for exceptional merit, either civil or military, shown by Bolivians or foreign nationals. There are six grades: Grand Collar, Grand Cross, Grand Officer, Commander, Officer, and Knight.

Ribbon bars
Grand Collar	Grand Cross	Grand Officer	Commander	Officer	Knight

Recipients

Recipients of the Order include:

Carlos Calvo Calbimontes, Foreign Secretary of Bolivia
Ram Nath Kovind, President of India
Pope Francis
Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor
Xavier Albó Corrons, Jesuit priest, expert in the indigenous peoples of Bolivia
Adolfo Costa du Rels, Bolivian author and diplomat
Charles de Gaulle, French president
Jimmy Doolittle, USAF General, Doolittle Raid Leader
Ernesto Galarza, Mexican-American activist
Clark Hewitt Galloway
Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom
Javier del Granado, Bolivian poet
Ileana Leonidoff, Russian dancer and choreographer, who founded the Ballet Oficial de Bolivia.[2]
Marcelo Ostria Trigo, Bolivian author and diplomat
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan dictator[3]
Sukarno, Indonesian leader
Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian politician
Koča Popović, Yugoslav politician and general[4][5]
Sunao Sonoda, Japanese foreign minister
Merle Tuve, American scientist
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Carlos Lampe, Bolivian football player
Pedro Sánchez, Spanish prime minister
María Eugenia del Valle, Chilean-Bolivian academic[6]

In 2002 the Order was awarded to the Pan American Health Organization.[7]

References

online description

http://www.congreso.gov.bo/leyes/1762.htm
Piccolo, Laura (1 August 2013). "Elena Sergeevna Pisarevskaja: Pseudonimo: Ileana Leonidoff". Russi in Italia (in Italian). Italy: Russi in Italia: dizionario. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
The Granta Book of Travel By Ian Jack, pages 364
Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik.
Гачић, Драган (2015). "Одликовања из легата историјског архива Београда". Историјски архив Београда: 351–353. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Contreras, Pilar; Blanco, Elías (1997). Existencias insurrectas: la mujer en la cultura [Insurgent Lives: Women in Culture] (in Spanish). Ministry of Human Development of Bolivia. Retrieved 13 October 2019 – via Google Books.
http://www.ops.org.bo/centenario/actividades/condorandes.htm

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[1] ttp://www.congreso.gov.bo/leyes/1762.htm

[2] Piccolo, Laura (1 August 2013). "Elena Sergeevna Pisarevskaja: Pseudonimo: Ileana Leonidoff". Russi in Italia (in Italian). Italy: Russi in Italia: dizionario. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

[3] The Granta Book of Travel By Ian Jack, pages 364

[4] Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik.

[5] Гачић, Драган (2015). "Одликовања из легата историјског архива Београда". Историјски архив Београда: 351–353. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[6] Contreras, Pilar; Blanco, Elías (1997). Existencias insurrectas: la mujer en la cultura [Insurgent Lives: Women in Culture] (in Spanish). Ministry of Human Development of Bolivia. Retrieved 13 October 2019 – via Google Books.

[7] ttp://www.ops.org.bo/centenario/actividades/condorandes.htm