Antenor Patiño


Antenor Patiño Rodríguez was a Bolivian tycoon, heir to his father Simón I. Patiño, called "the King of Tin".

Family

He married firstly in Paris on 8 April 1931 Doña María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús, 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal, a relative of Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII. The couple had two daughters:
He married secondly in London, Middlesex, on 8 January 1960 Contessa Beatriz :File:Castello_di_Rovasenda-veduta.JPG|di Rovasenda née de Rivera y Digeon, former wife of Piedmontese Count Giovanni Lodovico :File:Stemma_della_famiglia_di_Rovasenda.jpg|di Rovasenda, without issue. From her first marriage to :it:Di_Rovasenda|Conte di Rovasenda, she 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 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, in the 1960s.
With his fortune, amongst other things, he developed tourist destinations like Las Hadas, in Manzanillo, Mexico, and Las Alamandas in Jalisco state, also in Mexico.