Antenor Patiño

Antenor Patiño Rodríguez ( born October 12, 1896 in Oruro, † February 2nd 1982 in New York City ) was a Bolivian diplomat and entrepreneur.

Life

Antenor Patiño Rodríguez son of Albina Rodriguez Ocampo (1860-1953) and Simón I. Patiño was. He was in the 1920s Gesandsschaftssekretär in Paris. From April 8, 1931 until April 14, 1931, he was Bolivian affaires in Madrid, where he died on April 8, 1931 María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch Labrus ( born May 15, 1913 in Madrid, † 28 July 2002), a relative of Alfonso XIII. , married. From March 1938 to May 1945 he was Bolivian Affaires in London.

In Bolivia, were after Gualberto Villarroel López overthrown on 21 July 1946 and had been hung from a lamppost in front of the National Palace, the tin mines scene of political disputes. The unions of the mines Siglo XX and Catavi demanded a wage increase of 60 percent. The Minister of Labour appointed a conciliator. The announced in April 1947 arbitration proposal was rejected by both sides of industry.

On April 20, 1947 Antenor Patiño Rodríguez inherited the Patiño Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, Inc. from his father. The organized workers went on strike after 17 days, the Enrique Hertzog Gazaizabal government ordered the resumption of tin mining on. whereupon the workers partially armed recordings work, which meant that the foreign employees and the management left the farms. Patiño Mines locked out the workers, whereas this applied for an injunction in court. Antenor Patiño Rodríguez wrote his hacienda Pairumani in Cochabamba a letter to President Enrique Hertzog Gazaizabal. The company would have shown the best will to resume the operation. But as the labor and interior ministers were told is a normal operation of the mines with workers who had armed themselves with guns from army surplus, not possible. He threw the workers before they would acknowledge no hierarchy and rejected allegations that the company management would sabotage the operation. Rather had been issued at the Congress of miners in Pulacayo the solution for such actions. The final cost per pound tin were increased from 1.61 in 1942 U.S. dollars by 60 percent to 2.21 U.S. dollars in 1946. While in 1942 68 days wages were expended to produce one ton of tin, were necessary in 1946 81. From 1943 to 1947, the number of employees had increased to 8,000, while production has fallen. The government repeated its request, to resume production, the nachkam the company's management.

In the other mining regions, the situation was tense. In the mine of San José and in Ingenio Machacamarca, a division of Moritz Hochschild, production was stopped because the production costs exceeded the sales proceeds, which led to demonstrations in Oruro.

End of July 1947 put Patiño Mines to the Government a management plan, which provided for an increase in production, the dismissal of all employees with statutory redundancy payments and subsequent reinstatement of 95 percent of the workforce to a provided by the government minimum wage and incentive payments. The five percent of non-re- Adjusted would be reimbursed the cost of repatriation to their region of origin. The goal is to remove notorious dissenters and disturbers of the peace operation target. Been Though the Bolivian National Congress were three miners, the Labour Minister Alfredo Mendizábal of the Partido de Izquierda Revolucionaria ( PIR) by José Antonio Arze asked, reaching Patiño Mines that the compensation of 70 million bolivianos by the Banco Central from the sale of 1,500,000 U.S. dollars have been applied since the elimination of opposition was an investment that would benefit the nation's economy, bringing the Federación de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia Sindical was outmaneuvered.

In April 1952, the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario came to power, was on October 2, 1952, the Corporación Minera de Bolivia ( COMIBOL ) founded, which took over the management of the Bolivian tin mines in accordance with a decree of 30 October 1952, the previous owners compensated.

He invested in the hotel complexes Las Hadas in Manzanillo (Mexico) and Las Alamandas in Jalisco.

On January 8, 1960, he married Beatriz de Rivera y Digeon in London, Middlesex.