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Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

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Oct 16, 2026

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The industry was concentrated in the hands of a few tin barons, the best known being Simón Patiño, who became one of the richest men on the planet.
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In 1952, the National Revolution led by the MNR, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, and President Victor Paz Estensoro nationalised the Big Tin Mines into a state company, Commibol.
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It ran the mines and it also ran schools, clinics and subsidised company stores for mining families.
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Fast forward to the early 1980s.

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