The Communist Party of China has an active political bureau.
Bureau is a French word that is not found in the RAE dictionary . The term accepted in our language that has its etymological origin from the aforementioned French word is bureau .
The idea of bureau is usually used to name the body in charge of directing a political or other group . The most frequent use of the word is within the realm of communism .
The communist bureau
A political bureau , political bureau or politburo , therefore, is the body in charge of administration and decision-making in a communist party ( PC ). This notion is also used to name the body whose members are elected by the Central Committee of the PC and are in charge of directing a nation under a socialist regime.
An example of a political bureau in force today is that of the PC of China . Its members are the highest-ranking officials within the State Council , which means that their decisions involve the Chinese government in general.
Other bodies outside of communism are also known as bureau. That is the case of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , better known as the FBI , a United States government agency.
FBI is the acronym for Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI
The FBI , whose name in Spanish is the Federal Bureau of Investigation , is the most important crime investigation branch of the United States Department of Justice . Its headquarters are located in the District of Columbia (also known as Washington DC or simply as the capital of the United States ) although there are more than 50 offices throughout the country, located in large cities.
On the other hand, the FBI branches through more than 400 agencies located in North American cities and towns, but also has an international presence thanks to its Legal Diplomacies , offices located in US embassies in various parts of the world.
The importance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation not only lies in its jurisdiction, which makes it the strongest federal police agency on the planet by allowing it to investigate more than 200 categories of crimes, but can be seen in its prominence in internationally famous films and series. : The United States does not miss the opportunity to mention the FBI in its productions in the world of entertainment, and to show it as the absolute authority, to the point of generating the sensation in people from various countries of being an omnipresent force.
Its creation dates back to 1908 , when Attorney General Charles Bonaparte requested that nine detectives, twelve accountants and thirteen investigators be hired, with the purpose of delving into issues of civil rights and cases of violations of commercial laws and fraud, something that until then It was part of the tasks of the Secret Service and did not report directly to the prosecutor's office, thus hindering the investigation.
This group, which would become the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had jurisdiction at the national level that was not limited to the states of the country, something that at that time was considered a great controversy due to the federal nature of the constitution of USA . Various factors of the social and political reality of the time made it possible for this police entity to receive the necessary support to see the light of day.
Other uses of the term bureau
Bureau, on the other hand, is the name of a type of furniture used for writing tasks. In Mexico , what, in other countries, is called a light table or night table is known as a bureau.
Bureau, finally, is the name of a county in Illinois ( United States ) and the surname of a French expert in biology and medicine who lived between 1830 and 1918 ( Louis Édouard Bureau ).