Portrait of Carlos Victor Aramayo

People/magnate

Carlos Victor Aramayo

Carlos Victor Aramayo, magnate, from Bolivia. Linked to tin.

Legacy

Oxford-educated, one of the three Bolivian tin barons, a trio seen as a cartel with more power than the state.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 31 October 1952Bolivia nationalises the tin mines3
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People

Partner ofSimon Iturri PatinoOne of three Bolivian tin barons, a trio seen as a cartel with more power than the state.1Partner ofMauricio (Moritz) HochschildThe youngest and the Oxford-educated of Bolivia's tin barons.1Rival ofVictor Paz EstenssoroThe 1952 decree took Aramayo's mines too.4

Events

OwnedBolivia nationalises the tin minesHis properties were among the three largest tin companies nationalised in 1952.3

Sources

  1. How Bolivia's ruthless tin baron saved thousands of Jewish refugees The Guardian (Dan Collyns, 11 Aug 2022)
  2. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons
  3. Bolivia: the Bolivian National Revolution, 1952-64 US Library of Congress Federal Research Division (via countrystudies.us)
  4. Foreign Relations of the United States 1952-1954, vol. IV, document 145 US Department of State, Office of the Historian

Pictures on this page: Carlos Víctor Aramayo - 2.jpg, Unknown author (Public domain); 1922-06-06, El Liberal, Simón I. Patiño (cropped).jpg, Ángel de la Fuente (Public domain); 1026470 F82658.png, Irene Bran (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Chiquicamata Mine, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Salar de Atacama, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Kopermijn te Kolwezi in de provincie Shaba (Katanka), Mieremet, Rob / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).