cabildos

These meetings are called cabildos, and there the representatives negotiate benefits for themselves and the zones they represent in exchange for votes.

The NarcoSphere - 2008

These meetings are called cabildos, and there the representatives negotiate benefits for themselves and the zones they represent in exchange for votes.

Upping the Anti - A Journal of Theory and Action 2008

In Cuba, similar groups known as cabildos, which were responsible for organizing carnival processions, hatched uprisings in 1812 and 1835. "

Errata: The Wordie Blog 2009

Regional cabildos, faced with the paucity of legal practitioners, either licensed those with dubious qualifications, or neglected to demand their papers.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Obligados por la sordera, la soberbia y el desdén autoritario del Gobierno, el viernes, cuatro departamentos del país, que representan 73% del territorio, han realizado cabildos y han declarado su autonomía de facto, una forma parecida al federalismo venezolano.

12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006 2006

Obligados por la sordera, la soberbia y el desdén autoritario del Gobierno, el viernes, cuatro departamentos del país, que representan 73% del territorio, han realizado cabildos y han declarado su autonomía de facto, una forma parecida al federalismo venezolano.

What Venezuelans voted for: enabling fascism in Bolivia 2006

In accord with medieval Castilian traditions, the municipalities at first enjoyed a large measure of self-government under their cabildos (town councils), composed of regidores (councilmen) and alcaldes (mayors), the former elected by the householders and the latter by the councilmen.

b. Administration 2001

For one, I generally preferred stopping in them to passing the night in the little villages, where the _cabildos_ are often dirty and infested with fleas, and where a horrible concert is kept up by the lean and mangy curs which throughout Central America disgrace the respectable name of dog.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

The regidores of the ayuntamientos, or lay cabildos, were checked by the royal judge or _corregidor_, who was in fact the permanent chairman or president.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

A general meeting of ecclesiastical and secular cabildos, the bishop, and the orders, was called, together with the royal Audiencia.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906