Antenor Patiño

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Antenor Patiño (*Oruro Bolivia, 12 October 1896 - †New York U.S.A., 2 February 1982) was a Bolivian tycoon, heir to Simón I. Patiño, called "the King of Tin".

He married María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrus (1913-2002), Duchess of Dúrcal, a relative of Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII. The couple had two daughters, Cristina and María Isabel. The latter had a short and tragic marriage with James Goldsmith.

In 1947, he made a successful effort to rid his company of organized labor.

The Bolivian Revolution of 1952 nationalised the Patiño 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, in the 1960s.

With his fortune, amongst other things, he developed tourist destinations like Las Hadas, in Manzanillo, Mexico, (where the movie "10" starring actress Bo Derek was filmed) and Las Alamandas in Jalisco state, also in Mexico.