Word: catavi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windswept field near Bolivia's big Catavi tin mine, President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped to a rude table one day last week and with a golden pen signed the decree nationalizing the country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing...
...security of tenure, salary and other contract benefits if they will keep on working for the government's newly constituted Bolivian Mining Corp. But coming to terms with the tin barons and their experts may not be the President's toughest problem. Speaking to the miners at Catavi last week, Labor Boss Juan Lechin, Bolivia's left-wing Minister of Mines, said: "Nationalization must be carried out without payment to the thieving tin barons." Now, more than ever, Paz Estenssoro's chances of bringing off a miracle, of taking over tin without wrecking his country...
...Bolivian government has not done much about the problem either, but this summer a labor delegation from the Catavi tin mining region called on President Urriolagoitia and asked that the sale of alcohol be prohibited or limited in their area. As a result, the government forbade the sale of liquor within twelve miles of the Catavi mines. This act might stimulate tin production, might also stimulate activity outside the twelve-mile limit...
...leading newspaper, La Razon. Some 10,000 spectators lined a twomile, zigzagging, up & downhill race course. Among 250 drivers was one seven-year-old who came equipped with a white smock and first-aid kit; he listed his car as an ambulance, won the right to enter it. The Catavi tin-mining region sent six entrants whose expenses had been paid by subscription. One boy, asked whether he had brakes on his car, replied: "How can I win if I have brakes?" "Then how are you going to stop at the end?" "The crowd will stop...
...economic state of siege. The national budget depends on tin for around 45% of its revenue. With world prices tumbling (from $1.03 to 77¼? lb. in the last four months), tin mines had been closing all over the treeless, three-mile-high altiplano. Since May's bloody Catavi riots (TIME, June 13), almost 10,000 Indian miners had been thrown out of work...