Antenor Patiño
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Antenor Patiño Rodríguez (Oruro, Bolivia
Oruro, Bolivia
Oruro is a city in Bolivia with a population of 235,393 , located about equidistant between La Paz and Sucre at approximately 3710 meters above sea level. It is the capital of the department of Oruro....
, 12 October 1896 - New York City
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, New York County, New York
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, 2 February 1982) was a Bolivia
Bolivia
Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
n tycoon, heir to his father Simón I. Patiño
Simón Iturri Patiño
Don Simón Iturri Patiño was a Bolivian industrialist who was among the world's wealthiest men at the time of his death. With a fortune built from ownership of a majority of the tin industry in Bolivia, Patiño was nicknamed "The Andean Rockefeller"...
, called "the King of Tin".
He married firstly in Paris
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on 8 April 1931 Doña
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María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús (Madrid
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, 15 May 1913 - 28 July 2002), 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal
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, a relative of Spanish
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monarch Alfonso XIII. The couple had two daughters:
- Doña María Cristina Patiño y Borbón (b. ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 2 August 1932), who married:- Marc Charles Louis Joseph Marie, 7th Princes of Beauvau-CraonPrinces of Beauvau-CraonThe princely title of prince of Beauvau-Craon was created by Louis XV of France in 1722 and was inherited by male offsprings. It became extinct in 1982.-List of princes of Beauvau-Craon:...
(ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 3 February 1921 - Château d' Haroué, 21 November 1982) in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
on 11 December 1952, later divorced. Had two daughters: Marie, princesse de Beauvau-Craon (born 6 November 1953) married first to Duncan Hugh McLaren in 1978 and secondly in 1986 to Javier Botana, have issue. Diane, princesse de Beauvau-Craon (born 20 August 1955) was married to Ahmed Mohamadialal. She and Ahmed Mohamadialal were divorced in 1985. Have issue. - Ernst Schneider, and had one daughter: Maria Christine Schneider (born 1963) married Patrick-Olivier Picourt in 1987. Have issue.
- Kristo Kurteff, without issue.
- Marc Charles Louis Joseph Marie, 7th Princes of Beauvau-Craon
- Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 3 June 1936 - Neuilly-sur-SeineNeuilly-sur-SeineNeuilly-sur-Seine is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.Although Neuilly is technically a suburb of Paris, it is immediately adjacent to the city and directly extends it. The area is composed of mostly wealthy, select residential...
, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, 15 May 1954) who had a short and tragic marriage with Sir James GoldsmithJames GoldsmithSir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith was an Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon. Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived...
, by whom she had an only daughter.
In 1947, he made a successful effort to rid his company of organized labor. The Bolivian Revolution of 1952
History of Bolivia
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nationalised Patiño's mines and it is claimed that his heir Antenor Patiño had his hand in the military coup that deposed the leader of the revolution, then President Victor Paz Estenssoro
Víctor Paz Estenssoro
Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a politician and president of Bolivia. He ran for president 8 times , winning in 1951, 1960, 1964, and 1985....
, in the 1960s.
With his fortune, amongst other things, he developed tourist destinations like Las Hadas, in Manzanillo
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, Mexico
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, (where the movie "10" starring actress Bo Derek
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was filmed) and Las Alamandas in Jalisco
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state, also in Mexico.
He married secondly in London
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, Middlesex
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, on 8 January 1960 Beatriz de Rivera y Digeon, former wife of Count Giovanni Lodovico Rovasenda, without issue.