Antenor Patiño
Antenor Patiño Rodríguez (born October 12, 1896 in Oruro , † February 2, 1982 in New York City ) was a Bolivian diplomat and entrepreneur.
Life
Antenor Patiño Rodríguez was the son of Albina Rodriguez Ocampo (1860-1953) and Simón I. Patiño . He was the legation secretary in Paris in the 1920s . From April 8, 1931 to April 14, 1931 he was Bolivian Chargé d' Affaires in Madrid . From March 1938 to May 1945 he was a Bolivian chargé d'affaires in London .
In Bolivia, after Gualberto Villarroel López was overthrown on July 21, 1946 and hung from a lantern in front of the National Palace , the tin mines became the scene of political disputes. The unions of the mines Siglo XX and Catavi demanded a wage increase of 60 percent. The Minister of Labor appointed an arbitrator. The arbitration ruling announced in April 1947 was rejected by both parties to the agreement.
On April 20, 1947, Antenor Patiño Rodríguez inherited 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, whereupon the workers began to work partly armed, which resulted in foreign workers and management leaving the factories. Patiño Mines locked the workers out, while they applied to the court for an injunction. Antenor Patiño Rodríguez wrote a letter to President Enrique Hertzog Gazaizabal from his hacienda Pairumani near Cochabamba . The company would have shown the best will to resume operations. However, as the minister of labor and the interior has already been informed, normal operation of the mines with workers who armed themselves with rifles from army stocks is not possible. He accused the workers of disregarding hierarchy and denied allegations that management was sabotaging operations. Rather, the slogan for such actions was issued at the Miners' Congress in Pulacayo . The production costs per pound of tin rose by 60 percent from 1.61 US dollars in 1942 to 2.21 US dollars in 1946. While in 1942 68 daily wages were used to produce a ton of tin, in 1946 81 were necessary. From 1943 to 1947 the number of employees increased by 8,000 while production fell. The government repeated its request to restart production, which management followed.
The situation was also tense in the other mining regions. At the San José mine and at Ingenio Machacamarca, a Moritz Hochschild company , production was stopped because the prime costs exceeded the sales proceeds, which led to demonstrations in Oruro .
At the end of July 1947, Patiño Mines submitted a corporate management plan to the government, which provided for the dismissal of all employees with legally prescribed severance payments and a subsequent reinstatement of 95 percent of the employees to a government-prescribed minimum wage and performance bonuses for an expansion of production. The five percent of those who were not re-employed would be reimbursed for the costs of repatriation to their region of origin. The aim is to remove notorious deviants and disruptors of the peace. Although there were three miners in the Bolivian National Congress , and Labor Minister Alfredo Mendizábal from the Partido de Izquierda Revolucionaria (PIR) was provided by José Antonio Arze, Patiño Mines managed to obtain compensation for 70 million Bolivianos through Banco Central from the sale of 1,500,000 US dollars were raised as eliminating the opposition was an investment that would benefit the nation's economy, thus outmaneuvering the Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia .
In April 1952 the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario came to power, on October 2, 1952 the Corporación Minera de Bolivia ( COMIBOL ) was founded, which took over the management of the Bolivian tin mines according to a decree of October 30, 1952 and compensated the previous owners.
He invested in the hotel complexes Las Hadas in Manzanillo (Mexico) and Las Alamandas in Jalisco .
family
On April 8, 1931 Antenor Patiño married in Madrid in his first marriage Christina María Cristina de Borbon y Bosch Labrus (born May 15, 1913 in Madrid; † 28 July 2002), a relative of Alfonso XIII. María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (1935–1954), who came from this marriage, married the British investor James Goldsmith (1933–1997), descendant of the Frankfurt banking family Goldschmidt .
On January 8, 1960, Antenor Patiño Rodríguez married in London for the second time Beatriz de Rivera y Digeon (1911-2009).
literature
- Antenor R. Patino , In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv. 24/1982 of June 7, 1982, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Literature by and about Antenor Patiño in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Revista Nexos. August 1, 2009, El divorcio mexicano de Antenor Patiño
- ↑ Roberto Calvo Querejazu: La masacre blanca
- ↑ NACIONALIZACIÓN DE LAS MINAS
- ^ Antenor Patiño The Telegraph
- ^ Historic-properties
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Simón I. Patiño | Bolivian Chargé d'affaires in Madrid April 8, 1931 to April 14, 1931 |
María del Carmen Almendras Camargo |
| Juan Peñaranda Minchin |
Bolivian Chargé d'Affaires in London March 1938 to May 1945 |
Juan Peñaranda Minchin |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Patiño, Antenor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Patiño Rodríguez, Antenor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bolivian entrepreneur and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oruro |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1982 |
| Place of death | New York City |