- Siglo XX
Siglo XX (Spanish for "Twentieth Century") is a
tin mine inBolivia . It is located in the city ofLlallagua in the province of Bustillos,Potosí Department . Along with theCatavi mine, it is part of a mining complex in the area.It was acquired in the 1910s by
Simón Iturri Patiño , who was dubbed the "King of Tin." It was the site of continual labor strife, and many of its workers were active in the Union Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers (FSTMB).The mine was nationalized following the "Bolivian National Revolution" of 1952, when the
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) and its allies overthrew the military junta. Siglo XX and other mines were placed under the control of a new state agency, the "Corporación Minera de Bolivia " (COMIBOL). The Catavi-Siglo XX complex became the largest component of COMIBOL.On June 24, 1967, government troops under the orders of General René Barrientos and a new military junta marched on the mine and committed the largest massacre of workers in Bolivian history.Fact|date=September 2008
In 1987, as part of an economic restructuring deal with the IMF and World Bank, the government shut down production at Siglo XX.
Sources
* Jordán Pozo, Rolando: "Minería. Siglo XX: la era del estaño"; in: Campero Prudencio, Fernando: "Bolivia en el siglo XX. La formación de la Bolivia Contemporánea," La Paz: Harvard club de Bolivia 1999, S. 219-239
External links
* [http://www.bolivia.com/geografiadebolivia/cap21.htm Principales minas de estaño, Bolivia (span.)]
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