Antenor Patiño

Antenor Patiño Rodríguez (Oruro, Bolivia, 12 October 1896 - New York City, New York County, New York, 2 February 1982) was a Bolivian tycoon, heir to his father Simón I. Patiño, called "the King of Tin".

He married firstly in Paris on 8 April 1931 Doña María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús (Madrid, 15 May 1913 - 28 July 2002), 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal, a relative of Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII. The couple had two daughters:

In 1947, he made a successful effort to rid his company of organized labor. The Bolivian Revolution of 1952 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, 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.

He married secondly in London, Middlesex, on 8 January 1960 Beatriz de Rivera y Digeon, former wife of Count Giovanni Lodovico Rovasenda, without issue.

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